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Beauty in a smile: the role of medial orbitofrontal cortex in facial attractiveness.
Full Abstract
The attractiveness of a face is a highly salient social signal, influencing mate choice and other social judgements. In this study, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate brain regions that respond to attractive faces which manifested either a neutral or mildly happy face expression. Attractive faces produced activation of medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region involved in representing stimulus-reward value. Responses in this region were further enhanced by a smiling facial expression, suggesting that the reward value of an attractive face as indexed by medial OFC activity is modulated by a perceiver directed smile.
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Author information
Author/s: O'Doherty, J (J); Winston, J (J); Critchley, H (H); Perrett, D (D); Burt, D M (DM); Dolan, R J (RJ);
Affiliation: Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1 3BG, UK. j.odoherty@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Neuropsychologia (Neuropsychologia), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-; vol 41 (issue 2) : pp 147-55
Dates: Created 2002/12/02; Completed 2003/03/19; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12459213, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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