Response of face-selective brain regions to trustworthiness and gender of faces

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2205-2211

  Mattavelli, Giulia ^a,b   Andrews, Timothy J ^b   Asghar, Aziz U R ^b,c   Towler, John R ^b   Young, Andrew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Face perception; Face selective regions; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863867948     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.024     Document Type: Article

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