Neural correlates of enhanced visual short-term memory for angry faces: an FMRI study

Margaret C Jackson; Claudia Wolf; Stephen J Johnston; Jane E Raymond; David E J Linden

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003536

Neural correlates of enhanced visual short-term memory for angry faces: an FMRI study

Margaret C Jackson, Claudia Wolf, Stephen J Johnston, Jane E Raymond, David E J Linden

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Fluid and effective social communication requires that both face identity and emotional expression information are encoded and maintained in visual short-term memory (VSTM) to enable a coherent, ongoing picture of the world and its players. This appears to be of particular evolutionary importance when confronted with potentially threatening displays of emotion - previous research has shown better VSTM for angry versus happy or neutral face identities.

Original language	English
Article number	e3536
Number of pages	10
Journal	PloS ONE
Volume	3
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003536
Publication status	Published - 29 Oct 2008

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