News tagged with faces
Related topics: psychological science , brain , facial expressions
Flu overhyped? Some say officials 'cried swine'
(AP) -- Did government health officials "cry swine" when they sounded the alarm on what looked like a threatening new flu? The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 07, 2009 |
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Listening to music can change the way you judge facial emotions
A research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya at Goldsmiths, University of London has shown that it is possible to influence emotional evaluation of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the evaluation.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 06, 2009 |
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Swine flu having powerful impact on us
The new influenza A (H1N1), known as the swine flu, demonstrates the power of people's perceptions of risk. Sales of face masks are breaking all records not only in Mexico but also in Sweden. Hotel guests are being isolated ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Face transplant recipient: 'I'm not a monster'
(AP) -- When Connie Culp heard a little kid call her a monster because of the shotgun blast that left her face horribly disfigured, she pulled out her driver's license to show the child what she used to look ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Nation's first face transplant patient shows face
(AP) -- Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman.
May 05, 2009 |
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Survey finds nearly half of Americans concerned they or their family may get sick from swine flu
Following the declaration of a public health emergency due to the new H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a poll about how concerned Americans ...
May 01, 2009 |
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If the face fits...
The creators of the EFIT-V forensic facial composite software describe how it works and recent successes with police services in the UK in the current issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Fo ...
May 01, 2009 |
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Asia on alert after flu threat spreads
Asian health officials went on alert Sunday as a flu strain that has killed dozens of people in Mexico appeared to have spread to New Zealand, underscoring warnings of a potential pandemic.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 26, 2009 |
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7th surgery shows face transplants gaining ground
(AP) -- Five years ago, it was the stuff of science fiction: Replace someone's face with one from a dead donor. But on Thursday, Boston doctors performed the world's seventh such transplant - less than a week ...
Apr 11, 2009 |
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Second face transplant in US performed
Surgeons in Boston have performed the second-ever partial face transplant in the United States, replacing some 80 percent of a disfigured man's face.
Apr 10, 2009 |
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French hospital performs face, hand transplants
(AP) -- Paris' Public Hospital authority says a team of doctors has performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant.
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Face recognition: the eyes have it
Our brain extracts important information for face recognition principally from the eyes, and secondly from the mouth and nose, according to a new study from a researcher at the University of Barcelona. This result, published ...
Mar 27, 2009 |
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The brain 'joins the dots' when drawing a cartoon face from memory
In a study by Miall, Gowen and Tchalenko published by Elsevier, in the March issue of Cortex, a brain scanner was used to record the brain's activity in each stage of the process of drawing faces. The researchers found that t ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 19, 2009 |
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A human failure, seen at face value
(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area, researchers are taking a ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 13, 2009 |
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iLife upgrade makes photos, videos fun
One of the main reasons people buy Apple computers is because they come with fabulous software for managing your photos and creating movies.
Mar 12, 2009 |
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