Common and unique representations in pFC for face and place attractiveness
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Although previous neuroimaging research has identified overlapping correlates of subjective value across different reward types in the ventromedial pFC (vmPFC), it is not clear whether this "common currency" evaluative signal extends to the aesthetic domain. To examine this issue, we scanned human participants with fMRI while they made attractiveness judgments of faces and places-two stimulus categories that are associated with different underlying rewards, have very different visual properties, and are rarely compared with each other. We found overlapping signals for face and place attractiveness in the vmPFC, consistent with the idea that this region codes a signal for value that applies across disparate reward types and across both economic and aesthetic judgments. However, we also identified a subregion of vmPFC within which activity patterns for face and place attractiveness were distinguishable, suggesting that some category-specific attractiveness information is retained in this region. Finally, we observed two separate functional regions in lateral OFC: one region that exhibited a category-unique response to face attractiveness and another region that responded strongly to faces but was insensitive to their value. Our results suggest that vmPFC supports a common mechanism for reward evaluation while also retaining a degree of category-specific information, whereas lateral OFC may be involved in basic reward processing that is specific to only some stimulus categories.
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Facial attractiveness is evaluated by a network of cortical regions, including the lateral orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and anterior insular cortex, with the degree of activity in these regions correlating with perceived facial attractiveness.
“Facial attractiveness is additionally evaluated by a network of cortical regions, including the lateral OFC, ventromedial PFC (vmPFC), and the anterior IC (aIC), with the degree of activity in these regions correlating with perceived facial attractiveness, which is then translated into a romantic interest [104,105].”
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- Authors
- Pegors, T. K., Kable, J. W., Chatterjee, A., & Epstein, R. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- 2015-05-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 959-973
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- PMC
- PMC4681394
- OpenAlex
- W2004749809
- Cited by
- 82
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 2.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- University of Pennsylvania
- National Institutes of Health
- National Eye Institute (EY016464, R01EY016464)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- ventromedial prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, facial attractiveness, location attractiveness, aesthetic value, subjective value, reward evaluation, attractiveness judgments
- MeSH terms
- Brain Mapping, Eye Movements, Face, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motivation, Oxygen, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Space Perception, Multivariate Analysis, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult
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