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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 366, Issue 1571, Pages 1684-1701Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0362
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facial expressions; personality; fMRI; amygdala; anxiety; aggression
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- Medical Research Council, UK [U.1055.02.001.00001.01]
- Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
- MRC [MC_U105579214] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105579214] Funding Source: researchfish
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Cognitive research has long been aware of the relationship between individual differences in personality and performance on behavioural tasks. However, within the field of cognitive neuroscience, the way in which such differences manifest at a neural level has received relatively little attention. We review recent research addressing the relationship between personality traits and the neural response to viewing facial signals of emotion. In one section, we discuss work demonstrating the relationship between anxiety and the amygdala response to facial signals of threat. A second section considers research showing that individual differences in reward drive (behavioural activation system), a trait linked to aggression, influence the neural responsivity and connectivity between brain regions implicated in aggression when viewing facial signals of anger. Finally, we address recent criticisms of the correlational approach to fMRI analyses and conclude that when used appropriately, analyses examining the relationship between personality and brain activity provide a useful tool for understanding the neural basis of facial expression processing and emotion processing in general.
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