Passive and motivated perception of emotional faces: qualitative and quantitative changes in the face processing network.

ABSTRACT: Emotionally expressive faces are processed by a distributed network of interacting sub-cortical and cortical brain regions. The components of this network have been identified and described in large part by the stimulus properties to which they are sensitive, but as face processing research matures interest has broadened to also probe dynamic interactions between these regions and top-down influences such as task demand and context. While some research has tested the robustness of affective face processing by restricting available attentional resources, it is not known whether face network processing can be augmented by increased motivation to attend to affective face stimuli. Short videos of people expressing emotions were presented to healthy participants during functional magnetic reson

SUBMITTER: Skelly LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3386961 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature