Pulvinar and affective significance: responses track moment-to-moment stimulus visibility

Research on emotion has considered the pulvinar to be an important component of a subcortical pathway conveying visual information to the amygdala in a largely “automatic” fashion. An older literature has focused on understanding the role of the pulvinar in visual attention. To a...

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Main Authors: Srikanth Padmala, Seung-Lark Lim, Luiz Pessoa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00064/full