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SUBMITTER: Chen CY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6054627 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Chih-Yang CY Sonnenberg Lukas L Weller Simone S Witschel Thede T Hafed Ziad M ZM
Nature communications 20180720 1
Visual brain areas exhibit tuning characteristics well suited for image statistics present in our natural environment. However, visual sensation is an active process, and if there are any brain areas that ought to be particularly in tune with natural scene statistics, it would be sensory-motor areas critical for guiding behavior. Here we found that the rhesus macaque superior colliculus, a structure instrumental for rapid visual exploration with saccades, detects low spatial frequencies, which a ...[more]