Neuroanatomical correlates of the assessment of facial attractiveness
作者:
Katsuki Nakamura,
Ryuta Kawashima,
Sumiharu Nagumo,
Kengo Ito,
Motoaki Sugiura,
Takashi Kato,
Akinori Nakamura,
Kentaro Hatano,
Kisou Kubota,
Hiroshi Fukuda,
Shozo Kojima,
期刊:
NeuroReport
(OVID Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 9,
issue 4
页码: 753-757
ISSN:0959-4965
年代: 1998
出版商: OVID
关键词: Attractiveness;Face;Insula;Orbitofrontal cortex;PET;Prefrontal cortex;rCBF
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
FRONTAL cortical damage can lead to changes in affective aspects of personality. However, the difficulty of dissociating such abnormalities from cognitive disorders has overshadowed most previous findings. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured with positron emission tomography (PET) while normal subjects were assessing facial attractiveness. Two left frontal regions showed a significant increase in rCBF while assessing facial attractiveness. The increased rCBF in the left anterior frontal cortex correlated with the overall percentage of assessments of a face as unattractive, while that in the left fronto-temporal junction correlated with the percentage of assessments of a face as attractive. These findings provide direct evidence that the left frontal regions are engaged in the assessment of facial attractiveness.
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