loading...| Preferred Name | facial expression | |
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One or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social information between humans, but they also occur in most other mammals and some other animal species. Humans can adopt a facial expression voluntarily or involuntarily, and the neural mechanisms responsible for controlling the expression differ in each case. Voluntary facial expressions are often socially conditioned and follow a cortical route in the brain. Conversely, involuntary facial expressions are believed to be innate and follow a subcortical route in the brain. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_009619 |
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facial expressions |
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One or more motions or positions of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social information between humans, but they also occur in most other mammals and some other animal species. Humans can adopt a facial expression voluntarily or involuntarily, and the neural mechanisms responsible for controlling the expression differ in each case. Voluntary facial expressions are often socially conditioned and follow a cortical route in the brain. Conversely, involuntary facial expressions are believed to be innate and follow a subcortical route in the brain. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_expression |
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facial expression |
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BF592.F33 QP327 |
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GSSO:009619 |
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facial expression |
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