The Focus on Neuroscience box "Brain Reward When Making Eye Contact with Attractive People" describes an fMRI study in which participants were scanned while looking at photographs of faces, some looking directly at the viewer (eye-contact) and some looking away (non-eye-contact) . What did the results of this study show?
A) When we make eye contact with an attractive person, the brain area that is associated with the expectation of a reward shows increased activity.
B) When we make eye contact with any person, whether he or she is attractive or not, both the orbital frontal cortex and the amygdala show low levels of activation.
C) When we view faces of attractive people averting their gaze and not making eye contact, the ventral striatum becomes highly active.
D) When we make eye contact with an attractive person, the brain area that is associated with the expectation of a reward shows decreased activity.
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