Neural activity associated with enhanced facial attractiveness by cosmetics use
Neural activity associated with enhanced facial attractiveness by cosmetics use
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神经活动与化妆品使用增强面部吸引力相关
DOI：
10.1016/j.neulet.2014.02.047
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Fujii T
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作者：
Ueno A;Ito A;Kawasaki I;Kawachi Y;Yoshida K;Murakami Y;Sakai S;Iijima T;Matsue Y;Fujii T
以前的心理学研究表明，化妆可以增强面部吸引力。虽然神经影像学证据表明，眶额皮层（OFC）对漂亮的人的脸比对不漂亮的人的脸表现出更大的活动，但没有直接证据表明，OFC对化妆的人的脸也比不化妆的人的脸表现出更大的活动。使用功能性磁共振成像（fMRI），我们研究了神经活动，同时受试者观看144张相同面孔的照片，有化妆和没有化妆（48张化妆，48张没有化妆，48张杂乱的照片），并对这些面孔进行吸引力评级。行为数据显示，有化妆的脸比没有化妆的脸更有吸引力。成像数据显示，有化妆的脸比没有化妆的脸，左侧眶额皮层和右侧海马体表现出更大的活动。此外，活动的右前扣带皮层，左海马，左眶额皮层增加与面部吸引力的化妆品使用。这些结果提供了直接的证据，证明化妆品增强面部吸引力的神经基础。
Previous psychological studies have shown that make-up enhances facial attractiveness. Although neuroimaging evidence indicates that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) shows greater activity for faces of attractive people than for those of unattractive people, there is no direct evidence that the OFC also shows greater activity for the face of an individual wearing make-up than for the same face without make-up. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated neural activity while subjects viewed 144 photographs of the same faces with and without make-up (48 with make-up, 48 without make-up, and 48 scrambled photographs) and assigned these faces an attractiveness rating. The behavioral data showed that the faces with make-up were rated as more attractive than those without make-up. The imaging data revealed that the left OFC and the right hippocampus showed greater activity for faces with make-up than for those without make-up. Furthermore, the activities of the right anterior cingulate cortex, left hippocampus, and left OFC increased with increasing facial attractiveness resulting from cosmetics use. These results provide direct evidence of the neural underpinnings of cosmetically enhanced facial attractiveness.