The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Body Language
Why the brain reads bodies before it reads words, how posture, gesture, and spatial behaviour communicate meaning through neural systems that predate language by millions of years, and what your body is saying when your mouth is shut
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Body language is not a supplement to verbal communication. It is the original communication. Long before Homo sapiens developed the laryngeal control required for speech, our ancestors were reading posture, tracking gaze, interpreting gesture, and assessing threat or safety from the way another body moved through space. This fully referenced article explores the neural systems that process body language, why the brain trusts physical signals over verbal ones when the two conflict, and how the ancient, pre-verbal communication system that we carry in our nervous systems shapes every interaction we have.
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