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面孔吸引力是与进化有关的重要信息。面孔吸引力能被快速的感知,进而影响其它认知加工。近年来,学者在注意、时间知觉、学习、记忆和决策五个方面对面孔吸引力在认知过程中的作用及其神经机制做了大量研究。现有研究存在的争议主要集中于在相似的实验任务中面孔吸引力所诱发的行为反应或神经活动不同。而且以往研究在内容、技术手段和刺激材料等方面还存在可改进或扩展之处。未来研究应更多使用fMRI技术对面孔吸引力影响认知过程的脑机制进行深入探讨。

Abstract: Facial attractiveness is of particular relevance to evolution. Facial attractiveness can be perceived rapidly and subsequently pose large impacts on other cognitive processes. Researchers have done a lot of behavioral and neural studies on the roles of facial attractiveness from the perspectives of attention, temporal perception, learning, memory, and decision-making over recent years. The discrepancies in past research mainly focused on the different behavioral and neural responses evoked by facial attractiveness in similar experimental tasks. There are also several extensible aspects in this line of research, such as the topics, technical methods and materials. Future fMRI studies are needed to further explore the neural mechanisms of how facial attractiveness influences cognition.