BEAUTY AND UGLINESS IN THE BODIES AND FACES OF OTHERS: AN FMRI STUDY OF PERSON ESTHETIC JUDGEMENT

被引：29

作者：

Martin-Loeches, M. ^{[1
]}

Hernandez-Tamames, J. A. ^{[2
]}

Martin, A. ^{[2
]}

Urrutia, M. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Ctr UCM ISCIII Human Evolut & Behav, Madrid, Spain

[2] Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

[3] Univ La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

来源：

NEUROSCIENCE | 2014年 / 277卷

关键词：

neuroesthetics; beauty; ugliness; fMRI; faces; bodies; MEDIAL ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; NEURAL MECHANISMS; BRAIN; METAANALYSIS; CINGULATE; NETWORK; BODY; REPRESENTATIONS; PAINTINGS; COGNITION;

D O I：

10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.07.040

中图分类号：

Q189 [神经科学];

学科分类号：

071006 ;

摘要：

Whether beauty and ugliness represent two independent judgement categories or, instead, opposite extremes of a single dimension is a matter of debate. In the present 3T-functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study, 20 participants were scanned while judging faces and nude bodies of people classified as extremely ugly, extremely beautiful, or indifferent. Certain areas, such as the caudate/nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), exhibited a linear relationship across esthetic judgments supporting ugliness as the lowest extreme of a beauty continuum. Other regions, such as basal occipital areas, displayed an inverse pattern, with the highest activations for ugly and the lowest for beautiful ones. Further, several areas were involved alike by both the very beautiful and the very ugly stimuli. Among these, the medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC), as well as the posterior and medial portions of the cingulate gyrus. This is interpreted as the activation of neural circuits related to selfvs. other-assessment. Beauty and ugliness in the brain, at least in relation to natural and biologically and socially relevant stimuli (faces and bodies), appear tightly related and non-independent. Finally, neutral stimuli elicited strong and wide activations of the somatosensory and somatomotor systems together with longer reaction times and higher error rates, probably reflecting the difficulty of the human brain to classify someone as indifferent. (C) 2014 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：486 / 497

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