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Symmetric in the striate but asymmetric in the extrastriate cortex when processing three-quarter faces: Neural underpinnings for aesthetic appreciations

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F22%3A43920864" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/22:43920864 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11120/22:43923298

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pchj.539" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pchj.539</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pchj.539" target="_blank" >10.1002/pchj.539</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Symmetric in the striate but asymmetric in the extrastriate cortex when processing three-quarter faces: Neural underpinnings for aesthetic appreciations

  • Original language description

    Faces and their aesthetic appreciation are a core element of social interaction. Although studies have been made on facial processing when looking at faces with different perspectives, a direct comparison of faces in the left to the right perspective is missing. Portraits in classical Western art indicate a preference of the left compared to the right perspective, but the neural underpinnings of such an asymmetry still have to be clarified. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the current study focuses on the processing of three-quarter faces seen with different perspectives. Seventeen participants were asked to passively look at photographs of six male and six female faces with a neutral expression; the photographs were taken from the left, right, and frontal perspectives while keeping their focus on the eyes. The results showed that specific brain areas were involved in processing the three-quarter faces in either symmetric or asymmetric ways. Viewing left and right three-quarter faces resulted in two mirror-like activations in the striate cortex corresponding to the symmetric layout of the left and right perspectives. Viewing the left face resulted additionally in an enhanced activation also in the left extrastriate cortex. The right perspective of male faces elicited a lower activation compared to other perspectives in face-selective areas of the brain. Our findings suggest that the preference of the left three-quarter face emerges already in the early visual pathway presumably prior to facial identification, emotional processing, and aesthetic appreciation. Our observations may have general importance in disentangling different neural components and processing stages in the spatiotemporal characteristics of artistic expressions.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    PsyCh Journal

  • ISSN

    2046-0252

  • e-ISSN

    2046-0260

  • Volume of the periodical

    11

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2

  • Country of publishing house

    AU - AUSTRALIA

  • Number of pages

    9

  • Pages from-to

    720-728

  • UT code for WoS article

    000776294300001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85127424458