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
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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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author Mormann, Florian
Niediek, Johannes
Tudusciuc, Oana
Quesada, Carlos M.
Coenen, Volker
Elger, Christian
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description 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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spelling pubmed-46244862016-05-01 Neurons in the human amygdala encode face identity but not gaze direction Mormann, Florian Niediek, Johannes Tudusciuc, Oana Quesada, Carlos M. Coenen, Volker Elger, Christian Adolphs, Ralph Nat Neurosci Article 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. 2015-10-19 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4624486/ /pubmed/26479589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.4139 Text en http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms
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