| When memory meets beauty: Insights from event-related potentials. | |
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PMID: 20109520 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Facial attractiveness plays a key role in human social and affective behavior. To study the time course of the neural processing of attractiveness and its influence on recognition memory we investigated the event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited in an old/new recognition task in response to faces with a neutral expression that, at encoding, were rated for their attractiveness. Highly attractive faces elicited a specific early positive-going component on frontal sites; in addition, with respect to less attractive faces, they elicited larger later components related to structural encoding and recognition memory. All in all, our results show that facial attractiveness, independently from facial expression, modulates face processing throughout all stages from encoding to retrieval. |
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Authors:
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T Marzi; M P Viggiano |
Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-01-28 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Biological psychology Volume: 84 ISSN: 1873-6246 ISO Abbreviation: Biol Psychol Publication Date: 2010 May |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-05-24 Completed Date: 2010-08-23 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0375566 Medline TA: Biol Psychol Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 192-205 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Via di San Salvi 26, 50100 Firenze, Italy. |
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Adult Analysis of Variance Beauty* Brain Mapping Electroencephalography / methods Evoked Potentials / physiology* Facial Expression* Female Humans Male Memory / physiology* Pattern Recognition, Visual / physiology Photic Stimulation / methods Reaction Time / physiology Time Factors Young Adult |
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