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http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Imaging first impressions: Distinct neural processing of verbal and nonverbal social information

Kuzmanovic, B.FZJ* ; Bente, G. ; von Cramon, D. Y.FZJ* ; Schilbach, L. ; Tittgemeyer, M. ; Vogeley, K.FZJ*

2012
Academic Press Orlando, Fla.

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Abstract: First impressions profoundly influence our attitudes and behavior toward others. However, little is known about whether and to what degree the cognitive processes that underlie impression formation depend on the domain of the available information about the target person. To investigate the neural bases of the influence of verbal as compared to nonverbal information on interpersonal judgments, we identified brain regions where the BOLD signal parametrically increased with increasing strength of evaluation based on either short text vignettes or mimic and gestural behavior. While for verbal stimuli the increasing strength of subjective evaluation was correlated with increased neural activation of precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex (PC/PCC), a similar effect was observed for nonverbal stimuli in the amygdala. These findings support the assumption that qualitatively different cognitive operations underlie person evaluation depending upon the stimulus domain: while the processing of nonverbal person information may be more strongly associated with affective processing as indexed by recruitment of the amygdala, verbal person information engaged the PC/PCC that has been related to social inferential processing.

Keyword(s): Adult (MeSH) ; Brain: physiology (MeSH) ; Female (MeSH) ; Humans (MeSH) ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MeSH) ; Male (MeSH) ; Mental Processes: physiology (MeSH) ; Social Perception (MeSH) ; Verbal Behavior (MeSH) ; Young Adult (MeSH) ; J ; Amygdala (auto) ; Posterior cingulate cortex (auto) ; Verbal (auto) ; Nonverbal (auto) ; Impression formation (auto) ; Person perception (auto)

Note: We thank H. Kockler for helpful discussions and comments, E. Bannemer, R. Rosniak-Florath, A. Ruhling and K. Wittenberg for assistance with data collection and T. Wetzel for technical support. This study was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) [Project "Other Minds"; grant number 01GP0802; KV].

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Ethik in den Neurowissenschaften (INM-8)
2. Kognitive Neurowissenschaften (INM-3)

Research Program(s):

1. Techniken, Innovation und Gesellschaft (TIG) (FUEK506) (FUEK506)
2. 333 - Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases (POF2-333) (POF2-333)
3. 89572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF2-89572) (POF2-89572)

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