Sentences with phrase «participants pictures of faces»

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Participants were then tested on how well they could read the emotions expressed on pictures of faces.

The same study found that participants shown pictures of faces were more likely to gaze at the eye region, which conveys emotional information, after a dose of oxytocin.

The group performed non-invasive brain imaging in the first 80 college - aged participants of the DNS, showing them pictures of angry or fearful faces and watching the responses of a deep brain region called the amygdala, which helps shape our behavioral and biological responses to threat and stress.

These participants also underwent MRI scans which collected images of their brain while they learned and remembered names that were associated with pictures of unfamiliar faces.

Before each task, the participants briefly saw a picture of a face on the screen.

A participant quickly matches pairs of pictures or words — for example, the words «scientist» and «nurse» with male and female names, or «high - achieving» with black and white faces.

Similarly when participants viewed pictures of angry faces, they responded with a frown.

When participants looked at pictures of happy faces, their own facial expressions mirrored the picture — they responded with a smile.