Get in touch with emotions for Darwin’s experiment
Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas will feature the Father of Evolution’s pioneering work alongside the latest research on autism and computing.
In November 1868, Darwin was working on his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, and as part of his research, he showed a succession of visitors a set of photographs of human faces – some with the muscles artificially contracted by electric probes – and asked them what emotion they thought the photographs conveyed.
The Darwin Correspondence Project, based at the University Library, has joined forces with the university’s Computer Laboratory and the Autism Research Centre to recreate this on the internet tomorrow.
Read the full story on Cambridge News
Also read the Huffington Post feature and the Culture 24 article.
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