There is significant controversy over the existence and function of a direct subcortical visual
pathway to the amygdala. It is thought that this pathway rapidly transmits low spatial …

The human brain can process facial expressions of emotions rapidly and without
awareness. Several studies in patients with damage to their primary visual cortices have …

The mammalian retina captures a multitude of diverse features from the external
environment and conveys them via the optic nerve to a myriad of retinorecipient nuclei …

Rapid object recognition has survival significance. The extraction of topological properties
(TP) is proposed as the starting point of object perception. Behavioral evidence shows that …

It is well established that multisensory integration is a functional characteristic of the superior
colliculus that disambiguates external stimuli and therefore reduces the reaction times …

Earlier reports described huge overlapping visual receptive fields and the absence of
retinotopic organization in the dorsolateral, caudal part of the caudate nucleus. In the …

The subcortical visual pathway to the amygdala has long been considered a rapid and
crude stream for processing emotionally salient information that is reliant on low spatial …

Recent morphological and physiological studies support the assumption that the
extrageniculate ascending tectofugal pathways send visual projection to the caudate …

The suprageniculate nucleus (Sg) of the feline thalamus, which subserves largely unimodal
sensory and orientation behavior, receives input from the deep layers of the superior …

Recent studies stress the importance of the caudate nucleus in visual information
processing. Although the processing of moving visual signals depends upon the capability …