ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Sense or Sensibility? the Balancing Neuro-Functional Basis of the Structural Matching Effect in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex during Affective Versus Cognitive Processing and Evaluation
- Antonio Aquino
Chieti-Pescara University - Francesca Alparone
Chieti-Pescara University - Stefano Pagliaro
Chieti-Pescara University - Geoffrey Haddock
Cardiff University - Gregory Maio
University of Bath - Mauro Perrucci
G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti - Sjoerd Ebisch
G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti
Abstract
Thirty participants read affective and cognitive persuasive messages describing consumable products and subsequently evaluated these products during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity differentiated between the affective and cognitive conditions depending on individual affective-cognitive orientation suggesting a relationship between its functional properties and the structural matching effect.
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