Similarities and differences in perceiving threat from dynamic faces and bodies. An fMRI study
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Neuroscientific research on the perception of emotional signals has mainly focused on how the brain processes threat signals from photographs of facial expressions. Much less is known about body postures or about the processing of dynamic images. We undertook a systematic comparison of the neurofunctional network dedicated to processing facial and bodily expressions. Two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments investigated whether areas involved in processing social signals are activated differently by threatening signals (fear and anger) from facial or bodily expressions. The amygdala (AMG) was more active for facial than for bodily expressions. Body stimuli triggered higher activation than face stimuli in a number of areas. These were the cuneus, fusiform gyrus (FG), extrastriate body area (EBA), temporoparietal junction (TPJ), superior parietal lobule (SPL), primary somatosensory cortex (SI), as well as the thalamus. Emotion-specific effects were found in TPJ and FG for bodies and faces alike. EBA and superior temporal sulcus (STS) were more activated by threatening bodies.
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Girls may use the cuneus and lingual gyrus, which are involved in emotional face processing, for socio-emotional processing as a distinct mechanism supporting connectivity patterns that manifest as sexually dimorphic social behavior.
“Alternatively, girls may rely on regions such as the cuneus and LG, which are implicated in emotional face processing (Bremner et al., 2004, Kitada et al., 2010, Kret et al., 2011), for socio-emotional processing as a distinct mechanism supporting neural functional connectivity patterns that in turn manifest into sexually dimorphic social behavior.”
From Developmental sex differences in resting state functional connectivity of amygdala sub-regions (2015) · cites this paper as Kret et al., 2011
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- Authors
- Kret, M. E., Pichon, S., Grèzes, J., & de Gelder, B.
- Affiliations
- Tilburg University (NL)
- University of Geneva (CH)
- Inserm (FR)
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-01
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 1755-1762
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1968358788
- Cited by
- 204
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO, 400.04081)
- Human Frontiers Science Program (RGP54/2004)
- European Commission (COBOL FP6-NEST-043403)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- threat perception, facial expressions, posture, dynamic stimuli, amygdala, extrastriate body area, temporoparietal junction, fusiform gyrus, superior parietal lobule, primary somatosensory cortex, thalamus, fear, anger, social signal processing, emotional face processing
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Posture, Visual Perception, Young Adult
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