Monthly Archives: September 2016

14 09, 2016

Researchers induce feelings about faces: MRI Study

2016-09-14T16:33:36-04:00September 14th, 2016|Brain MRI, Medical Imaging, MRI, MRI Research|

A new MRI study has located the cingulate cortex as the brain region responsible for forming positive or negative associations with people's faces. The researchers also experimented with manipulating the emotional responses of their subjects, ie. inducing them to feel a certain way about certain faces. "Face recognition is a very important social function for [...]