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 …

Attractiveness is a facial attribute that shapes human affiliative behaviours. In a previous
study we reported a linear response to facial attractiveness in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a …

The current study examined the neural substrates of facial attractiveness judgments. Based
on the extant behavioral literature, it was hypothesized that brain regions involved in …

What are the neural correlates of attractiveness? Using functional MRI (fMRI), the authors
addressed this question in the specific context of the apprehension of faces. When subjects …

Positive behavioral responses to attractive faces have led neuroscientists to investigate
underlying neural mechanisms in a “reward circuit” that includes brain regions innervated by …

Face perception is mediated by a distributed neural system in the human brain. Attention,
memory and emotion modulate the neural activation evoked by faces, however the effects of …

Current cognitive models suggest that the processing of dynamic facial attributes, including
social signals such as gaze direction and facial expression, involves the superior temporal …

In human communication there is often a close relationship between the perception of an
emotionally expressive face and the facial response of the viewer himself. Whereas …

The brain circuitry processing rewarding and aversive stimuli is hypothesized to be at the
core of motivated behavior. In this study, discrete categories of beautiful faces are shown to …

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 …