The modular neuroarchitecture of social judgments on faces

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 951-961

  Bzdok, Danilo ^a,b,c   Langner, Robert ^a,b,c   Hoffstaedter, Felix ^a,b   Turetsky, Bruce I ^d   Zilles, Karl ^b,c,e   Eickhoff, Simon B ^a,b,c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c Julich Aachen Research Alliance JARA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

attractiveness; facial judgments; social cognition; trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRUST;

EID: 84859027724     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr166     Document Type: Article

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