UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An individual may bring their hands to their face when feeling sad or jump into the air when feeling happy. Human body movements convey emotions, which plays a crucial role in ...

Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of beauty graced museum walls, we now see bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, ...

Researchers are devising technologies that help analyze and enhance human movement and performance.

The classical view of how the human brain controls voluntary movement might not tell the whole story. That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region is ...

It is well established that unrealistic images of the fit feminine body can lead to body dissatisfaction, body image distortion, various types of eating-disordered behaviors, and mental health issues.

Sometimes in the rush to explore our interactions with neural nets (often in the form of LLMs) we forget to think about our own operating system and how it works. Of course, scientists did spend a lot ...

You know that phrase, “The only way to move is forward?” It was probably coined by a runner. The breakdown of the human body’s fundamental movement patterns can vary, depending on who you talk to.

The way we move through the world impacts our bodies far more profoundly than most people realize. While nutrition and skincare routinely dominate anti-aging discussions, movement patterns often exert ...