Human brain reacts to emoticons as real faces

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Question 1

a.      False. “Just a few decades after they were invented.”

b.      True. “ They are used to provide clues to the tone of SMS, emails and tweets that can be hard to briefly describe in words alone.”

c.      False. “. Churches found that the same reaction occurred when 20 participants in a study were shown emoticons, but only when they were viewed in the traditional, left-to-right format.”

d.      True. "There is no innate neural response to emoticons that babies are born with.”

Question 2

a.      We have become so used to reading emoticons that our brain has developed a new neural response and it reacts to them in the same way as it reacts when we see a face.

b.      Dr Owen Churches carried out the study. He showed 20 subjects emoticons that appeared in different directions. He also showed them faces and other characters. Then by scanning these people’s brains he studied their reactions to emoticons.

Question 3

a.      Indispensable                           b. inverted                                c. journal

d    pattern                                     e. innate

Question 4

a.      If emoticons were not so important in online communication, our brain wouldn’t know how to decode them.

b.      The way our brains work is being changed by emoticons.

c.      Dr Churches said that he had found that they had become so important that now we reacted to them in the same way as we would to a real face.