Figure 4.

Selective neural responses to anomalous faces and relations to implicit bias. (A) Regions where anomalous faces elicited greater activation than beautiful and average‐looking novel faces (top; no masking). Only disgusting animals and facial beauty conjointly implicated the left amygdala. Warm colors reflect increased activation for anomalous versus novel beautiful and average‐looking faces. Cool colors represent decreased activation. (B) Regions sensitive to both facial anomalies and implicit biases toward them (top; no masking). This analysis was repeated with inclusive masking for facial beauty and disgust toward animals and exclusive masking for visual salience and emotional arousal, with significant positive correlations restricted to the bilateral fusiform and left amygdala (bottom; selective masking). Warm colors reflect increased activation in response to anomalous (compared with novel beautiful and average‐looking) faces—in addition, however, these clusters were further positively correlated with implicit biases. Cool colors indicate negative correlations. IAT, Implicit Association Test.