ArticleiScience2024
Visual looming is a primitive for human emotion.
Article in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Vasopressin and angiotensin II pathways differentially modulate human fear response dynamics to looming threats.PLoS biology · 2026Trial
- Psychedelic 4-AcO-DMT attenuated looming-induced freezing behaviors by activating PrLMolecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Preserved discrimination sensitivity to looming trajectories across parafoveal and peripheral vision.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Human superior colliculus pathways represent the form and motion of looming objects.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Shared and Individual Tuning Curves for Social Perception.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
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- Shared and individual tuning curves for social vision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A distributed subcortical circuit linked to instrumental information-seeking about threat.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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The neural computations for looming detection are strikingly similar across species. In mammals, information about approaching threats is conveyed from the retina to the midbrain superior colliculus, where approach variables are computed to enable defensive behavior. Although neuroscientific theories posit that midbrain representations contribute to emotion through connectivity with distributed brain systems, it remains unknown whether a computational system for looming detection can predict both defensive behavior and phenomenal experience in humans. Here, we show that a shallow convolutional neural network based on the
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