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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2023

Prestimulus amygdala spectral activity is associated with visual face awareness.

Raphael Guex, Tomas Ros, Pierre Mégevand, Laurent Spinelli, Margitta Seeck, Patrik Vuilleumier, Judith Domínguez-Borràs

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Latencies Associated with Neuronal Pathways of Visual Emotional Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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7 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Raphael GuexDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva - Campus Biotech, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.
Tomas RosDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Campus Biotech, University of Geneva, Geneva 1202, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6952-0459
Pierre MégevandDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva - Campus Biotech, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0427-547X
Laurent SpinelliDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Geneva - HUG, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.
Margitta SeeckDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Geneva - HUG, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.
Patrik VuilleumierDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva - Campus Biotech, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.
Judith Domínguez-BorràsDepartment of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva - Campus Biotech, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3233-5713
University of Geneva · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alpha cortical oscillations have been proposed to suppress sensory processing in the visual, auditory, and tactile domains, influencing conscious stimulus perception. However, it is unknown whether oscillatory neural activity in the amygdala, a subcortical structure involved in salience detection, has a similar impact on stimulus awareness. Recording intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) from 9 human amygdalae during face detection in a continuous flash suppression task, we found increased spectral prestimulus power and phase coherence, with most consistent effects in the alpha band, when faces were undetected relative to detected, similarly as previously observed in cortex with this task using scalp-EEG. Moreover, selective decreases in the alpha and gamma bands preceded face detection, with individual prestimulus alpha power correlating negatively with detection rate in patients. These findings reveal for the first time that prestimulus subcortical oscillations localized in human amygdala may contribute to perceptual gating mechanisms governing subsequent face detection and offer promising insights on the role of this structure in visual awareness.

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TouchAlpha RhythmConsciousnessDiscrimination, PsychologicalElectroencephalographyHumansPhotic StimulationVisual PerceptionalphaamygdalaawarenessiEEGprestimulus

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