Amygdala and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex responses to appearance-based and behavior-based person impressions

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 572-581

  Baron, Sean G ^a   Gobbini, M I ^b   Engell, Andrew D ^c   Todorov, Alexander ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Faces; Learning; PFC; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRUST; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054758455     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq086     Document Type: Article

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