A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and ...

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Facial expressions evolved as fast, universal emotional signals, interpreted more reliably than wordless vocalizations. Human ...

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In the nuanced world of social interaction, what sounds perfectly normal to one person can quietly set another's teeth on edge. It's not about being snobbish, but about subtle linguistic cues that ...