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When memory meets beauty: Insights from event-related potentials
- Source :
- Biological Psychology. 84:192-205
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2010.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Attractiveness
Time Factors
Brain mapping
Beauty
Young Adult
Memory
Event-related potential
Encoding (memory)
Reaction Time
Humans
Evoked Potentials
Recognition memory
Analysis of Variance
Brain Mapping
Facial expression
Communication
business.industry
General Neuroscience
Electroencephalography
Facial Expression
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Expression (architecture)
Pattern recognition (psychology)
Female
Psychology
business
Photic Stimulation
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03010511
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biological Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a22c0855637754b1a50427b2dc5de920