Sentences with phrase «volunteers pictures of faces»

The researchers invoked conscious processing simply by showing volunteers pictures of faces or houses.

Not exact matches

In the study, 66 volunteers first saw pictures of 30 faces, each paired with a sentence describing a negative, positive or neutral social behavior.

Comparative psychologist Eric Legge of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and colleagues started their experiment with 102 volunteers in a real room fitted with couches, tables, pictures, and other furnishings, as well as a dark corner to the left of the entrance and a window facing the outside in the corner opposite the entryway.

So he and colleague Ahmad Hariri divided volunteers into two groups — one with the «short» variant and one without — and compared (using functional magnetic resonance imaging, which generates snapshots of the brain in action) how their amygdala responses differed when they were shown pictures of fearful faces, a common method for triggering an amygdala response.

When volunteers were asked to compare pictures of human faces, they rated those with more facial contrast as looking younger.

SIR — By having volunteers pair up pictures of people's faces («Hunkier than thou», December 11th) scientists trying to understand the causes of human mate selection are not doing much better than internet dating.