Do You See :-) As a Face? Not Exactly, Emoticon Researchers Find

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 16:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Researchers have found that emoticons, though they obviously resemble little faces, aren't actually processed in our brain the same way. Instead, the smiley symbols have more in common with logographs, or symbols used to represent words, like some Chinese characters.

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