Subtle Multisensory Clues Reveal Other People's Emotions (preview)

Features | Mind & Brain See Inside

Good social skills depend on picking up on other people's moods?a feat the brain performs by combining numerous sensory clues

By Janina Seubert and Christina Regenbogen ?| February 27, 2012

Image: Hugh Kretschmer/Getty Images

In Brief

1. Understanding what others are feeling, thinking and wanting is essential to successful social interaction.
2. We sense the emotions of others by combining disparate clues: expressions, gestures, body posture, tone of voice and even odor.
3. Scientists have fingered brain regions that integrate disparate sensory signals that may be associated with a particular person or scene.

When someone approaches you to ask, ?What?s wrong?? you know that you are broadcasting unhappiness, whether or not you said a word. Perhaps it was a grimace or your sluggish gait that conveyed the message. You cannot help but communicate your mood to colleagues, neighbors and fellow commuters through numerous subtle cues.

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