The Focus on Neuroscience Box, "Brain Reward When MakingEye Contact

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The Focus on Neuroscience box, "Brain Reward When MakingEye Contact with Attractive People," described an fMRI study.The results showed that when we make direct eye contact with aphysically attractive person, a specific area on each side of the brain is activated. When the attractive person's eye gaze is shifted away from the viewer, brain activity in these are asdecrease. Other researchers have expanded on these findings and identified two brain areas that are selectively responsive to the reward value of attractive faces, the _____ and the _____.

• A)amygdala; left ventral striatum
• B)orbital frontal cortex; right ventral striatum
• C)orbital frontal cortex; amygdala
• D)amygdala; right ventral striatum

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