However, now we are starting to see new types of non-verbal communication coming into place.

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Nonetheless, Ekman is a giant in the field and his contribution to our understanding of non-verbal communication is enormous.

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Along the way, Ekman discovered something else, his other great contribution to the study of non-verbal communication: micro-expressions.

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More broadly, how did non-verbal communication work?

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If 80% of human communication is non-verbal, endowing robots with those skills is going to be key.

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This means that the left hemisphere (language based) and right hemisphere (seat of emotions and non-verbal awareness) of the brain more neural communication, which is why most women may be better able to verbalize emotions (in general) than most men.

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Communication is after all largely non-verbal.

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