Attention teens and the adults that act like them: Facebook has added emoticons to Chat on the web. While before you could use text like :) to create a smile or even :putnam: to show a picture of ...

Now an analyst at natural language processing firm Idibon, Schnoebelen has turned his attention to emoticons’ hip young cousins: emoji. (MORE: The Emoji’s Strange Power) Disclaimer ...

Emoticon brain Emoticons such as smiley faces ... "Most of us pay more attention to faces than we do to anything else," says Churches, who has been studying the neuroscience of face perception ...