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Beauty in a smile: the role of medial orbitofrontal cortex in facial attractiveness

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O’Doherty, J, Winston, J, Critchley, H, Perrett, D, Burt, D.M, Dolan, R.J·2003·Neuropsychologia

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The attractiveness of a face is a highly salient social signal, influencing mate choice and other social judgements. In this study, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate brain regions that respond to attractive faces which manifested either a neutral or mildly happy face expression. Attractive faces produced activation of medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region involved in representing stimulus-reward value. Responses in this region were further enhanced by a smiling facial expression, suggesting that the reward value of an attractive face as indexed by medial OFC activity is modulated by a perceiver directed smile.

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Authors: O’Doherty, J., Winston, J., Critchley, H., Perrett, D., Burt, D. M., & Dolan, R. J.
Affiliations: National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (GB)
University of St Andrews (GB)
The Royal Free Hospital (GB)
Corresponding author: O’Doherty, J
ORCID: O’Doherty, J
Winston, J
Critchley, H
Perrett, D
Burt, D.M
Dolan, R.J
Venue: Neuropsychologia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2003-01
Volume: 41
Issue: 2
Pages: 147-155
ISSN: 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00145-8
OpenAlex: W2138900344
Cited by: 898
References: 54
Citations by year: 2026: 14 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 41 · 2016: 52 · 2015: 47 · 2014: 49 · 2013: 62 · 2012: 47
FWCI: 37.16
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
hdl.handle.net
Licence: other-oa
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders: Wellcome Trust
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords: facial attractiveness, medial orbitofrontal cortex, reward value, mate choice, social signals, face perception
MeSH terms: Adult, Beauty, Brain Mapping, Facial Expression, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Sex Factors, Smiling, Social Behavior, Social Perception, Visual Perception

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