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Perceived facial happiness during conversation correlates with insular and hypothalamus activity for humans, not robots. An investigation of the somatic marker hypothesis applied to social interactions.
Thierry Chaminade, Nicolas Spatola
The paper investigates whether the somatic marker hypothesis applies to social interactions by comparing brain activity during conversations with humans and robots, finding that happiness-related activity in the hypothalamus and insula occurs only with humans.