Remembering beauty: roles of orbitofrontal and hippocampal regions in successful memory encoding of attractive faces.
Neuroimage
; 54(1): 653-60, 2011 Jan 01.
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ABSTRACT
Behavioral data have shown that attractive faces are better remembered but the neural mechanisms of this effect are largely unknown. To investigate this issue, female participants were scanned with event-related functional MRI (fMRI) while rating the attractiveness of male faces. Memory for the faces was tested after fMRI scanning and was used to identify successful encoding activity (subsequent memory paradigm). As expected, attractive faces were remembered better than other faces. The study yielded three main fMRI findings. First, activity in the right orbitofrontal cortex increased linearly as a function of attractiveness ratings. Second, activity in the left hippocampus increased as a function of subsequent memory (subsequent misses
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Assunto principal:
Beleza
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Mapeamento Encefálico
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Sinais (Psicologia)
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Face
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Giro do Cíngulo
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Hipocampo
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Memória
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2011
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Article