Neurons in the human amygdala encode face identity but not gaze direction

The amygdala is a key structure in face processing, and direction of eye gaze is one of the most socially salient facial signals. Recording from over 200 neurons in the amygdala of neurosurgical patients, we here find robust encoding of the identity of neutral-expression faces, but not to their dire...

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Autores principales: Mormann, Florian, Niediek, Johannes, Tudusciuc, Oana, Quesada, Carlos M., Coenen, Volker, Elger, Christian, Adolphs, Ralph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4624486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26479589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.4139
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Sumario:The amygdala is a key structure in face processing, and direction of eye gaze is one of the most socially salient facial signals. Recording from over 200 neurons in the amygdala of neurosurgical patients, we here find robust encoding of the identity of neutral-expression faces, but not to their direction of gaze. Processing of gaze direction may rely on a predominantly cortical network rather than the amygdala.

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