Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces.

Human facial features (eyes, nose, and mouth) allow us to communicate with others. Observing faces triggers physiological responses, including pupil dilation. Still, the relative influence of social and motion content of a visual stimulus on pupillary reactivity has never been elucidated.

Sounds Pleasantness Ratings in Autism: Interaction Between Social Information and Acoustical Noise Level.

A lack of response to voices, and a great interest for music are part of the behavioral expressions, commonly (self-)reported in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). These atypical interests for vocal and musical sounds could be attributable to different levels of acoustical noise, quantified in the harmonic-to-noise ratio (HNR). No previous study has investigated explicit auditory pleasantness in ASD comparing vocal and non-vocal sounds, in relation to acoustic noise level.

Facial mask disturbs ocular exploration but not pupil reactivity.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed to wear a face mask that may have negative consequences for social interactions despite its health benefits. A lot of recent studies focused on emotion recognition of masked faces, as the mouth is, with the eyes, essential to convey emotional content. However, none have studied neurobehavioral and neurophysiological markers of masked faces perception, such as ocular exploration and pupil reactivity.

[Management of simple acute diverticulitis : Towards a "less is more" approach].

Acute diverticulitis is the most common complication of diverticular disease, increasing in industrialized countries and in young people under 45 years of age. The modified Hinchey classification remains the most widely used and includes simple diverticulitis, i.e.