Fast Detector/First Responder: Interactions between the Superior Colliculus-Pulvinar Pathway and Stimuli Relevant to Primates

Beware the serpent: the advantage of ecologically-relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness

(2017) Nuno Gomes et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Pulvinar Sign in Wernicke's Encephalopathy.

(2017) Christian Schmidt et al.   CNS SPECTRUMS

Who is afraid of the invisible snake? Subjective visual awareness modulates posterior brain activity for evolutionarily threatening stimuli

(2016) Simone Grassini et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Freezing of gait is associated with increased saccade latency and variability in Parkinson’s disease

(2016) Samuel T. Nemanich et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) quickly detect snakes but not spiders: Evolutionary origins of fear-relevant animals.

(2016) Nobuyuki Kawai et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Scales drive detection, attention, and memory of snakes in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)

(2016) Lynne A. Isbell et al.   PRIMATES

Snakes elicit earlier, and monkey faces, later, gamma oscillations in macaque pulvinar neurons

(2016) Quan Van Le et al.   Scientific Reports

Population Coding of Facial Information in the Monkey Superior Colliculus and Pulvinar

(2016) Minh N. Nguyen et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Breaking Snake Camouflage: Humans Detect Snakes More Accurately than Other Animals under Less Discernible Visual Conditions

(2016) Nobuyuki Kawai et al.   PLoS One

Conserved evolutionary history for quick detection of threatening faces

(2015) Nobuyuki Kawai et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

An animal model of disengagement: Temporary inactivation of the superior colliculus impairs attention disengagement in rats

(2015) Mariana Ferreira Pereira de Araujo et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Facial blindsight

(2015) Marco Solcà et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Connectivity between the superior colliculus and the amygdala in humans and macaque monkeys: virtual dissection with probabilistic DTI tractography

(2015) Robert D. Rafal et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

The two-process theory of face processing: Modifications based on two decades of data from infants and adults

(2015) Mark H. Johnson et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The Distinct Role of the Amygdala, Superior Colliculus and Pulvinar in Processing of Central and Peripheral Snakes

(2015) Inês Almeida et al.   PLoS One

Curvilinear shapes and the snake detection hypothesis: An ERP study

(2015) Jan W. Van Strien et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Exploring the unconscious using faces

(2015) Vadim Axelrod et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Relationships among Parvalbumin-Immunoreactive Neuron Density, Phase-Locked Gamma Oscillations, and Autistic/Schizophrenic Symptoms in PDGFR-β Knock-Out and Control Mice

(2015) Tomoya Nakamura et al.   PLoS One

Snake pictures draw more early attention than spider pictures in non-phobic women: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

(2014) J.W. Van Strien et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Are patients with Parkinson’s disease blind to blindsight?

(2014) Nico J. Diederich et al.   BRAIN

Motor planning in Parkinson’s disease patients experiencing freezing of gait: The influence of cognitive load when approaching obstacles

(2014) Frederico Pieruccini-Faria et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Testing the snake-detection hypothesis: larger early posterior negativity in humans to pictures of snakes than to pictures of other reptiles, spiders and slugs

(2014) Jan W. Van Strien et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Unseen Fearful Faces Influence Face Encoding: Evidence from ERPs in Hemianopic Patients

(2014) Roberto Cecere et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Primary vision and facial emotion recognition in early Parkinson's disease

(2014) Géraldine Hipp et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Subcortical amygdala pathways enable rapid face processing

(2014) Mona M. Garvert et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The nature of face representations in subcortical regions

(2014) Shai Gabay et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Spiders do not evoke greater early posterior negativity in the event-related potential as snakes

(2014) Hongshen He et al.   NEUROREPORT

Impairments to visual disengagement in autism spectrum disorder: A review of experimental studies from infancy to adulthood

(2014) Lori-Ann R. Sacrey et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Whole-Body Prepulse Inhibition Protocol to Test Sensorymotor Gating Mechanisms in Monkeys

(2014) Patricia G. Saletti et al.   PLoS One

Monkey Pulvinar Neurons Fire Differentially to Snake Postures

(2014) Quan Van Le et al.   PLoS One

The Hidden Snake in the Grass: Superior Detection of Snakes in Challenging Attentional Conditions

(2014) Sandra C. Soares et al.   PLoS One

Effect of distracting faces on visual selective attention in the monkey

(2014) Rogier Landman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cortical networks for face perception in two-month-old infants

(2014) T. Nakano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neuronal responses to face-like and facial stimuli in the monkey superior colliculus

(2014) Minh Nui Nguyen et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Disengagement of Visual Attention in Infancy is Associated with Emerging Autism in Toddlerhood

(2013) Mayada Elsabbagh et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control

(2013) Nick Berggren et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Amygdala, pulvinar, and inferior parietal cortex contribute to early processing of faces without awareness

(2013) Vanessa Troiani et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Defense-Like Behaviors Evoked by Pharmacological Disinhibition of the Superior Colliculus in the Primate

(2013) J. T. DesJardin et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Psychophysical definition of S-cone stimuli in the macaque

(2013) N. Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF VISION

Facilitation of face recognition through the retino-tectal pathway

(2013) Tamami Nakano et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Pulvinar neurons reveal neurobiological evidence of past selection for rapid detection of snakes

(2013) Q. Van Le et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Development of Snake-Directed Antipredator Behavior by Wild White-faced Capuchin Monkeys: I. Snake-Species Discrimination

(2012) WHITNEY MENO et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Defining face perception areas in the human brain: A large-scale factorial fMRI face localizer analysis

(2012) Bruno Rossion et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Projections to the Superior Colliculus From Inferior Parietal, Ventral Premotor, and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Areas Involved in Controlling Goal-Directed Hand Actions in the Macaque

(2012) E. Borra et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Subcortical Connections to Human Amygdala and Changes following Destruction of the Visual Cortex

(2012) Marco Tamietto et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Neuronal responses to face-like stimuli in the monkey pulvinar

(2012) Minh Nui Nguyen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Subcortical human face processing? Evidence from masked priming.

(2012) Shah Khalid et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Differential face-network adaptation in children, adolescents and adults

(2012) Kathrin Cohen Kadosh et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Atypical attentional networks and the emergence of autism

(2012) Brandon Keehn et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

A role for the superior colliculus in the modulation of threat responsiveness in primates: toward the ontogenesis of the social brain

(2012) Rafael S. Maior et al.   REVIEWS IN THE NEUROSCIENCES

Motor Functions of the Superior Colliculus

(2011) Neeraj J. Gandhi et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Functional Evidence for a Dual Route to Amygdala

(2011) Marta I. Garrido et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Superior colliculus lesions impair threat responsiveness in infant capuchin monkeys

(2011) Rafael S. Maior et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Deficits in Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor-β Gene Knockout Mice

(2011) Phuong Thi Hong Nguyen et al.   PLoS One

Hunter-gatherers and other primates as prey, predators, and competitors of snakes

(2011) T. N. Headland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the resistance to extinction of fear conditioned to angry faces

(2011) Monique E. Rowles et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Face Processing as a Brain Adaptation at Multiple Timescales

(2011) Mark H. Johnson   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

The Organization and Evolution of Dorsal Stream Multisensory Motor Pathways in Primates

(2011) Jon H. Kaas et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

The influence of color on snake detection in visual search in human children

(2011) S. Hayakawa et al.   Scientific Reports

The monkey pulvinar neurons differentially respond to emotional expressions of human faces

(2010) Rafael S. Maior et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Validating γ Oscillations and Delayed Auditory Responses as Translational Biomarkers of Autism

(2010) Michael J. Gandal et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Basic Abnormalities in Visual Processing Affect Face Processing at an Early Age in Autism Spectrum Disorder

(2010) Petra Hendrika Johanna Maria Vlamings et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Correlated evolution of brain regions involved in producing and processing facial expressions in anthropoid primates

(2010) S. D. Dobson et al.   Biology Letters

Testing the effects of end-goal during reach-to-grasp movements in Parkinson’s disease

(2010) Caterina Ansuini et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Pulvinar Inactivation Disrupts Selection of Movement Plans

(2010) M. Wilke et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Emotion processing and the amygdala: from a 'low road' to 'many roads' of evaluating biological significance

(2010) Luiz Pessoa et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

fMRI evidence of neural abnormalities in the subcortical face processing system in ASD

(2010) Natalia M. Kleinhans et al.   NEUROIMAGE

A Disynaptic Relay from Superior Colliculus to Dorsal Stream Visual Cortex in Macaque Monkey

(2010) David C. Lyon et al.   NEURON

Insights into the neural control of locomotion from walking through doorways in Parkinson's disease

(2010) Dorothy Cowie et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Neural correlates to seen gaze-direction and head orientation in the macaque monkey amygdala

(2010) T. Tazumi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Human Young Children as well as Adults Demonstrate ‘Superior’ Rapid Snake Detection When Typical Striking Posture Is Displayed by the Snake

(2010) Nobuo Masataka et al.   PLoS One

Neural processing of imminent collision in humans

(2010) J. Billington et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reduced thalamic volume observed across different subgroups of autism spectrum disorders

(2010) Ryu Tamura et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING

Pulvinar Projections to the Striatum and Amygdala in the Tree Shrew

(2010) Jonathan D. Day-Brown et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Attention and reach-to-grasp movements in Parkinson’s disease

(2010) Cathy Lu et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Socioecological correlates of facial mobility in nonhuman anthropoids

(2009) Seth D. Dobson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Emotion and the motivational brain

(2009) Peter J. Lang et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

When seeing outweighs feeling: a role for prefrontal cortex in passive control of negative affect in blindsight

(2009) S. Anders et al.   BRAIN

Gain control in the visual thalamus during perception and cognition

(2009) Yuri B Saalmann et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Visual orienting in the early broader autism phenotype: disengagement and facilitation

(2009) Mayada Elsabbagh et al.   JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

Rapid detection of snakes by Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata): An evolutionarily predisposed visual system.

(2009) Masahiro Shibasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Obstacle avoidance to elicit freezing of gait during treadmill walking

(2009) Anke H. Snijders et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Evolution of colour vision in mammals

(2009) G. H. Jacobs   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The facial expression musculature in primates and its evolutionary significance

(2008) Anne M. Burrows   BIOESSAYS

Does localisation blindsight extend to two-dimensional targets?

(2008) David P. Carey et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Seeing the invisible: The scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry

(2008) Zhicheng Lin et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Neuroanatomy of autism

(2008) David G. Amaral et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Primate color vision: A comparative perspective

(2008) GERALD H. JACOBS   VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE