TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bzdok, D.
AU  - Langner, R.
AU  - Hoffstaedter, F.
AU  - Turetsky, B.I.
AU  - Zilles, K.
AU  - Eickhoff, S.B.
TI  - The Modular Neuroarchitecture of Social Judgments on Faces
JO  - Cerebral cortex
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
SN  - 1047-3211
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
M1  - PreJuSER-15773
SP  - 951-961
PY  - 2012
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - Face-derived information on trustworthiness and attractiveness crucially influences social interaction. It is, however, unclear to what degree the functional neuroanatomy of these complex social judgments on faces reflects genuine social versus basic emotional and cognitive processing. To disentangle social from nonsocial contributions, we assessed commonalities and differences between the functional networks activated by judging social (trustworthiness, attractiveness), emotional (happiness), and cognitive (age) facial traits. Relative to happiness and age evaluations, both trustworthiness and attractiveness judgments selectively activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and inferior frontal gyrus, forming a core social cognition network. Moreover, they also elicited a higher amygdalar response than even the emotional control condition. Both social judgments differed, however, in their top-down modulation of face-sensitive regions: trustworthiness judgments recruited the posterior superior temporal sulcus, whereas attractiveness judgments recruited the fusiform gyrus. Social and emotional judgments converged and, therefore, likely interact in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Social and age judgments, on the other hand, commonly engaged the anterior insula, inferior parietal cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which appear to subserve more cognitive aspects in social evaluation. These findings demonstrate the modularity of social judgments on human faces by separating the neural correlates of social, face-specific, emotional, and cognitive processing facets.
KW  - Adult
KW  - Analysis of Variance
KW  - Brain: blood supply
KW  - Brain: physiology
KW  - Brain Mapping
KW  - Cognition: physiology
KW  - Emotions: physiology
KW  - Face
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
KW  - Judgment: physiology
KW  - Likelihood Functions
KW  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Oxygen: blood
KW  - Pattern Recognition, Visual: physiology
KW  - Photic Stimulation
KW  - Reaction Time: physiology
KW  - Social Perception
KW  - Statistics as Topic
KW  - Young Adult
KW  - Oxygen (NLM Chemicals)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:21725038
C2  - pmc:PMC3450920
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000302004600020
DO  - DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhr166
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/15773
ER  -