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Short-latency preference for faces in the primate superior colliculus.


ABSTRACT: Face processing is fundamental to primates and has been extensively studied in higher-order visual cortex. Here we report that visual neurons in the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) display a preference for faces, that the preference emerges within 50ms of stimulus onset - well before "face patches" in visual cortex - and that this activity can distinguish faces from other visual objects with accuracies of ~80%. This short-latency preference in SC depends on signals routed through early visual cortex, because inactivating the lateral geniculate nucleus, the key relay from retina to cortex, virtually eliminates visual responses in SC, including face-related activity. These results reveal an unexpected circuit in the primate visual system for rapidly detecting faces in the periphery, complementing the higher-order areas needed for recognizing individual faces.

SUBMITTER: Yu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10602035 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Short-latency preference for faces in the primate superior colliculus.

Yu Gongchen G   Katz Leor N LN   Quaia Christian C   Messinger Adam A   Krauzlis Richard J RJ  

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 20230909


Face processing is fundamental to primates and has been extensively studied in higher-order visual cortex. Here we report that visual neurons in the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) display a preference for faces, that the preference emerges within 50ms of stimulus onset - well before "face patches" in visual cortex - and that this activity can distinguish faces from other visual objects with accuracies of ~80%. This short-latency preference in SC depends on signals routed through early visual  ...[more]

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