TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kuzmanovic, B.
AU  - Bente, G.
AU  - von Cramon, D.Y.
AU  - Schilbach, L.
AU  - Tittgemeyer, M.
AU  - Vogeley, K.
TI  - Imaging first impressions: Distinct neural processing of verbal and nonverbal social information
JO  - NeuroImage
VL  - 60
SN  - 1053-8119
CY  - Orlando, Fla.
PB  - Academic Press
M1  - PreJuSER-19761
SP  - 179 - 188
PY  - 2012
N1  - 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].
AB  - 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.
KW  - Adult
KW  - Brain: physiology
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
KW  - Male
KW  - Mental Processes: physiology
KW  - Social Perception
KW  - Verbal Behavior
KW  - Young Adult
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:22227133
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000301218700018
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.046
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/19761
ER  -