ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Increased Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Decreased Zygomaticus Activation in Response to Disliked Smiles Suggest Top-Down Inhibition of Facial Mimicry.
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- The Reward-Related Shift of Emotional Contagion from the Observer's Perspective Correlates to Their Intimacy with the Expresser.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The widespread action observation/execution matching system for facial expression processing.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Investigating form and content of emotional and non-emotional laughing.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Right Temporoparietal Junction Plays a Role in the Modulation of Emotional Mimicry by Group Membership.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Influence of Reward on Facial Mimicry: No Evidence for a Significant Effect of Oxytocin.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
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Spontaneous facial mimicry is modulated by many factors, and often needs to be suppressed to comply with social norms. The neural basis for the inhibition of facial mimicry was investigated in a combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and electromyography study in 39 healthy participants. In an operant conditioning paradigm, face identities were associated with reward or punishment and were later shown expressing dynamic smiles and anger expressions. Face identities previously associated with punishment, compared to reward, were disliked by participants overall, and their smiles generated less mimicry. Consistent with previous research on the inhibition of finger/hand movements, the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) was activated when previous conditioning was incongruent with the valence of the expression. On such trials there was also greater functional connectivity of the mPFC with insula and premotor cortex as tested with psychophysiological interaction, suggesting inhibition of areas associated with the production of facial mimicry and the processing of facial feedback. The findings suggest that the mPFC supports the inhibition of facial mimicry, and support the claim of theories of embodied cognition that facial mimicry constitutes a spontaneous low-level motor imitation.
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