Brain systems for assessing facial attractiveness

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 195-206

  Winston, Joel S ^a   O'Doherty, John ^a   Kilner, James M ^a   Perrett, David I ^b   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Face processing; Orbitofrontal cortex; Reward; Social judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STIMULUS; SUBICULUM;

EID: 33751398997     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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