title: Neural Mechanism of Inferring Person's Inner Attitude towards Another Person through Observing the Facial Affect in an Emotional Context.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The goal of the present study was to identify the brain mechanism involved in the attribution of person's attitude toward another person, using facial affective pictures and pictures displaying an affectively-loaded situation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty four right-handed healthy subjects volunteered for our study. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine brain activation during attitude attribution task as compared to gender matching tasks.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified activation in the left inferior frontal cortex, left superior temporal sulcus, and left inferior parietal lobule during the attitude attribution task, compared to the gender matching task.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study suggests that mirror neuron system and ventrolateral inferior frontal cortex play a critical role in the attribution of a person's inner attitude towards another person in an emotional situation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Konyang University, Daejeon, Korea.
authors.forename: Ji-Woong
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jae-Jin
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Bumseok
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.forename: Sung-Eun
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seon Wan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Ki
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