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| Title |
Human brain structure predicts individual differences in preconscious evaluation of facial dominance and trustworthiness
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| Published in |
Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1093/scan/nsu103 |
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| Authors |
Spas Getov, Ryota Kanai, Bahador Bahrami, Geraint Rees |
| Abstract |
Social cues conveyed by the human face, such as eye gaze direction, are evaluated even before they are consciously perceived. While there is substantial individual variability in such evaluation, its neural basis is unknown. Here we asked whether individual differences in preconscious evaluation of social face traits were associated with local variability in brain structure. Adult human participants (n = 36) monocularly viewed faces varying in dominance and trustworthiness, which were suppressed from awareness by a dynamic noise pattern shown to the other eye. The time taken for faces to emerge from suppression and become visible (t2e) was used as a measure of potency in competing for visual awareness. Both dominant and untrustworthy faces resulted in slower t2e than neutral faces, with substantial individual variability in these effects. Individual differences in t2e were correlated with gray matter volume in right insula for dominant faces, and with gray matter volume in medial prefrontal cortex, right temporoparietal junction and bilateral fusiform face area for untrustworthy faces. Thus, individual differences in preconscious social processing can be predicted from local brain structure, and separable correlates for facial dominance and untrustworthiness suggest distinct mechanisms of preconscious processing. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 29% |
| Japan | 3 | 18% |
| Mexico | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 8 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 53% |
| Scientists | 7 | 41% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 120 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 16% |
| Researcher | 16 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 24 | 20% |
| Unknown | 23 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 53 | 44% |
| Neuroscience | 14 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 8% |
| Unknown | 32 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 July 2015.
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