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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Neuroanatomy of Discrete Emotional Facial Expressions

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Personality/Emotion

  • Fatemeh Noohi
    University of California, San Francisco
  • Eena Kosik
    University of California San Francisco
  • Christina Vesiris
    University of California San Francisco
  • Joel Kramer
    University of California San Francisco
  • Bruce Miller
    University of California San Francisco
  • William Seeley
    University of California San Francisco
  • Sarah Holley
    San Francisco State University
  • Virginia Sturm
    University of California San Francisco

Abstract

We examined the neural systems involved in the production of emotional facial expressions. Greater gray matter volume in right midcingulate cortex correlated with greater brow furrowing in response to disgusting stimuli, and greater volume in left midcingulate cortex correlated with greater smiling to amusing stimuli.

Emotion