Imaging first impressions: Distinct neural processing of verbal and nonverbal social information

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 179-188

  Kuzmanovic, Bojana ^a,b   Bente, Gary ^c   von Cramon, D Yves ^d   Schilbach, Leonhard ^a,d   Tittgemeyer, Marc ^c   Vogeley, Kai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Impression formation; Nonverbal; Person perception; Posterior cingulate cortex; Verbal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE PROCESSING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPRESSION FORMATION; MALE; NONVERBAL STIMULUS; PERCEPTION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INFERENTIAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS; VERBALIZATION; VIGNETTE;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856019623     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.046     Document Type: Article

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