The human face is the universal language of emotion, defends Prof. Freitas-Magalhães, the world’s leading expert for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, by Elsevier, Oxford, in this pioneering and extraordinary book about the science of emotional universality. In F-M Face Prototypic Model of the 9 Basic Emotions: Evidence from Human Perception and Neural Integration, Prof. Freitas-Magalhães presents the first scientifically validated universal facial prototype — a neuropsychophysiological synthesis of nine basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust, contempt, pain, and love. Based on decades of research at the Facial Emotion Expression Lab (FEELab), this work integrates anatomical, psychological, and neural evidence to reveal how emotion is both biologically grounded and perceptually universal. Bridging human perception and neural integration, this book marks a new era in affective neuroscience and facial intelligence, where the human face becomes not only an object of study but a living map of emotional awareness.