ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2023
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex.
Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 28 papers.
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- An auditory "low road" for threat processing in humans sensitive to fast temporal cues.iScience · 2026Article
- The contribution of the koniocellular visual pathway to aversive learning in human visual cortex.Journal of neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Changes in visuocortical engagement and oscillatory brain activity during associative learning.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Unconscious Fear Requires Attention to Distort Vision in Safe Context.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic neural correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder and mild traumatic brain injury.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Trait-like visual cortical hyperactivity in trait anxiety.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Event-related potential correlates of visual processing across obsessive-compulsive and anxiety spectrum disorders: A scoping review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Article
- Anxious vision: Trait-like visual cortical hyperactivity in trait anxiety.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Bayesian multilevel modeling of group and participant level effect sizes: Stronger inter-individual differences in pupil dilation compared to EEG alpha power during aversive conditioning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of multispectral oscillatory activity underlying the processing of negative and positive emotional images.NeuroImage · 2025Article
- Competitive Cortical Prioritization Emerges for Trained Objects across the First Year of Life.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Applying Bayesian Multilevel Modeling to Single Trial Dynamics: A Demonstration in Aversive Conditioning.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Fear perception as a function of hemisphere- and time-specific dynamics in the medial temporal lobes.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Stimulus Repetition Induces a Two-Stage Learning Process in the Primary Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neurophysiological and Autonomic Dynamics of Threat Processing during Sustained Social Fear Generalization.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neuromodulation of Fear and Anxiety Circuits.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Quantifying population-level neural tuning functions using Ricker wavelets and the Bayesian bootstrap.Journal of neuroscience methods · 2025Article
- Neural dynamics of attentional resource allocation in early visual cortex: emotional scenes produce competitive interactions.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- From Motion to Emotion: Visual Pathways and Potential Interconnections.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
- A Systematic Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of (Left) Hand Contractions on Motor Performance.Sport, exercise, and performance psychology · 2024Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Animal models of threat processing have evolved beyond the amygdala to incorporate a distributed neural network. In human research, evidence has intensified in recent years to challenge the canonical threat circuitry centered on the amygdala, urging revision of threat conceptualization. A strong surge of research into threat processing in the sensory cortex in the past decade has generated particularly useful insights to inform the reconceptualization. Here, synthesizing findings from both animal and human research, we highlight sensitive, specific, and adaptable threat representations in the sensory cortex, arising from experience-based sculpting of sensory coding networks. We thus propose that the human sensory cortex can drive smart (fast and precise) threat evaluation, producing threat-imbued sensory afferents to elicit network-wide threat responses.
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