Emoticons such as smiley and sad faces are changing the way our brain works, Australian researchers have claimed. They say the use of the punctuation faces trigger parts of the brain usually reserved ...

That smiley face you add to the end of your text messages might be having more of an impact than you realise - new research is showing human brains have learned how to react to emoticons as they would ...

EMOTICONS — those cute (or annoying) smiley faces added to emails, texts and social media posts trigger a brain response similar to what we experience when seeing a friend. The use of typewriter keys ...

Emoticon brain Emoticons such as smiley faces are a new language that is changing our brain, according to new Australian research published in the journal Social Neuroscience. Since emoticons first ...

A recent study published in science journal Social Neuroscience has shown that human brains respond to emoticons in the same way they respond to human faces, and differently than they respond to just ...