Fixations Gate Species-Specific Responses to Free Viewing of Faces in the Human and Macaque Amygdala

• Published in: Cell reports (Cambridge) Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 878 - 891
• Main Authors: Minxha, Juri, Mosher, Clayton, Morrow, Jeremiah K., Mamelak, Adam N., Adolphs, Ralph, Gothard, Katalin M., Rutishauser, Ueli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 24.01.2017; Elsevier
• Subjects: amygdala; Amygdala - physiology; Animals; Area Under Curve; attention; Behavior; Epilepsy - physiopathology; face cells; human single neuron; Humans; interspecies comparison; latency; Macaca mulatta - physiology; Neurons - physiology; Photic Stimulation; Reaction Time - physiology; ROC Curve; visual tuning; amygdala; face cells; human single neuron; interspecies comparison; latency; attention; visual tuning

Neurons in the primate amygdala respond prominently to faces. This implicates the amygdala in the processing of socially significant stimuli, yet its contribution to social perception remains poorly understood. We evaluated the representation of faces in the primate amygdala during naturalistic cond...