The Neural Response to Facial Attractiveness
The Neural Response to Facial Attractiveness
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DOI：
10.1037/a0014430
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发表时间：
2009-03-01
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影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Aguirre, Geoffrey K.
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作者：
Chatterjee, Anjan;Thomas, Amy;Aguirre, Geoffrey K.
吸引力的神经关联是什么？利用功能性磁共振成像（fMRI），作者在面孔理解的特定背景下解决了这个问题。当受试者明确判断面部美，神经活动在一个广泛分布的网络，涉及腹侧枕，前岛，背后顶叶，下背外侧，内侧前额叶皮层与面部吸引力的程度参数相关。当受试者没有明确注意到吸引力，而是判断面部身份时，腹侧枕叶区域仍然对面部美做出反应。作者提出，这个区域，包括梭形面部区域（FFA），外侧枕叶皮层（ESTA）和内侧相邻区域，被美丽自动激活，并可能作为社交互动中吸引力普遍影响的神经触发器。
What are the neural correlates of attractiveness? Using functional MRI (fMRI), the authors addressed this question in the specific context of the apprehension of faces. When subjects judged facial beauty explicitly, neural activity in a widely distributed network involving the ventral occipital, anterior insular, dorsal posterior parietal, inferior dorsolateral, and medial prefrontal cortices correlated parametrically with the degree of facial attractiveness. When subjects were not attending explicitly to attractiveness, but rather were judging facial identity, the ventral occipital region remained responsive to facial beauty. The authors propose that this region, which includes the fusiform face area (FFA), the lateral occipital cortex (LOC), and medially adjacent regions, is activated automatically by beauty and may serve as a neural trigger for pervasive effects of attractiveness in social interactions.