The Focus on Neuroscience Box "Brain Reward When Making Eye

question 115

Multiple Choice

The Focus on Neuroscience box "Brain Reward When Making Eye Contact with Attractive People" describes an fMRI study in which participants were scanned while looking at photographs of faces. What were the results of the study?

• A) Faces of attractive people looking directly at the viewer decreased activity in the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.
• B) Faces of ugly and unattractive people looking directly at the viewer activated the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.
• C) Faces of attractive people looking directly at the viewer activated the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.
• D) Faces of attractive people averting their gaze and not making eye contact with the viewer activated the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.

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