When we like what we know - A parametric fMRI analysis of beauty and familiarity

Brain and Language

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Bohrn, Isabel C ^a   Altmann, Ulrike ^a   Lubrich, Oliver ^a,b   Menninghaus, Winfried ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (DINE)   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Neuroaesthetics; Reading; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; ESTHETICS; FAMILIARITY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROESTHETICS; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; BEAUTY; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869211896     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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