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Men Fear Other Men Most: Gender Specific Brain Activations in Perceiving Threat from Dynamic Faces and Bodies – An fMRI Study
Gender differences are an important factor regulating our daily interactions. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we show that brain areas involved in processing social signals are activated differently by threatening signals send from male and female facial and bodily expressions and that t...
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2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21713131 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00003 |
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author | Kret, Mariska Esther Pichon, Swann Grèzes, Julie de Gelder, Beatrice |
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description | Gender differences are an important factor regulating our daily interactions. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we show that brain areas involved in processing social signals are activated differently by threatening signals send from male and female facial and bodily expressions and that their activation patterns are different for male and female observers. Male participants pay more attention to the female face as shown by increased amygdala activity. But a host of other areas show selective sensitivity for male observers attending to male threatening bodily expressions (extrastriate body area, superior temporal sulcus, fusiform gyrus, pre-supplementary motor area, and premotor cortex). This is the first study investigating gender differences in processing dynamic female and male facial and bodily expressions and it illustrates the importance of gender differences in affective communication. |
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spelling | pubmed-31114462011-06-27 Men Fear Other Men Most: Gender Specific Brain Activations in Perceiving Threat from Dynamic Faces and Bodies – An fMRI Study Kret, Mariska Esther Pichon, Swann Grèzes, Julie de Gelder, Beatrice Front Psychol Psychology Gender differences are an important factor regulating our daily interactions. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we show that brain areas involved in processing social signals are activated differently by threatening signals send from male and female facial and bodily expressions and that their activation patterns are different for male and female observers. Male participants pay more attention to the female face as shown by increased amygdala activity. But a host of other areas show selective sensitivity for male observers attending to male threatening bodily expressions (extrastriate body area, superior temporal sulcus, fusiform gyrus, pre-supplementary motor area, and premotor cortex). This is the first study investigating gender differences in processing dynamic female and male facial and bodily expressions and it illustrates the importance of gender differences in affective communication. Frontiers Research Foundation 2011-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3111446/ /pubmed/21713131 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00003 Text en Copyright © 2011 Kret, Pichon, Grèzes and de Gelder. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and Frontiers Media SA, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Kret, Mariska Esther Pichon, Swann Grèzes, Julie de Gelder, Beatrice Men Fear Other Men Most: Gender Specific Brain Activations in Perceiving Threat from Dynamic Faces and Bodies – An fMRI Study |
title | Men Fear Other Men Most: Gender Specific Brain Activations in Perceiving Threat from Dynamic Faces and Bodies – An fMRI Study |
title_full | Men Fear Other Men Most: Gender Specific Brain Activations in Perceiving Threat from Dynamic Faces and Bodies – An fMRI Study |
title_fullStr | Men Fear Other Men Most: Gender Specific Brain Activations in Perceiving Threat from Dynamic Faces and Bodies – An fMRI Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Men Fear Other Men Most: Gender Specific Brain Activations in Perceiving Threat from Dynamic Faces and Bodies – An fMRI Study |
title_short | Men Fear Other Men Most: Gender Specific Brain Activations in Perceiving Threat from Dynamic Faces and Bodies – An fMRI Study |
title_sort | men fear other men most: gender specific brain activations in perceiving threat from dynamic faces and bodies – an fmri study |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21713131 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00003 |
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