Stop looking angry and smile, please: start and stop of the very same facial expression differentially activate threat- and reward-related brain networks

• Published in: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 321 - 329
• Main Authors: Mühlberger, Andreas, Wieser, Matthias J., Gerdes, Antje B.M., Frey, Monika C.M., Weyers, Peter, Pauli, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.06.2011
• Subjects: Adult; Amygdala - physiology; Anger - physiology; Arousal - physiology; Communication; Corpus Striatum - physiology; Emotions - physiology; Facial Expression; Fear - physiology; Female; Happiness; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Original; Photic Stimulation - methods; Pilot Projects; Reward; Social Behavior; Young Adult; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; face; facial expression; amygdala; striatum

Static pictures of emotional facial expressions have been found to activate brain structures involved in the processing of emotional stimuli. However, in everyday live, emotional expressions are changing rapidly, and the processing of the onset vs the offset of the very same emotional expression mig...