Interpretation Of Forehead and Eyebrow Movements in Different System Languages

The article examines the duration of the muscle contraction underlying the eyebrow lift, which varies depending on the specifics of the situation: at the beginning of a communicative episode, this movement turns out to be longer than in the process of subsequent interaction. The study of the joint manifestation of various facial expressions revealed the presence of universal patterns inherent in all three analyzed cultures. The most typical facial component accompanying the raising of eyebrows is a smile. The antipode of the so—called “eyebrow flare”, both from the point of view of neuromuscular organization and from the point of view of semantic interpretation, is the work of the muscle, which ensures lowering of the eyebrows and their displacement to each other.