Rapid and coarse face detection: With a lack of evidence for a nasal-temporal asymmetry.

ABSTRACT: Humans have structures dedicated to the processing of faces, which include cortical components (e.g., areas in occipital and temporal lobes) and subcortical components (e.g., superior colliculus and amygdala). Although faces are processed more quickly than stimuli from other categories, there is a lack of consensus regarding whether subcortical structures are responsible for rapid face processing. In order to probe this, we exploited the asymmetry in the strength of projections to subcortical structures between the nasal and temporal hemiretina. Participants detected faces from unrecognizable control stimuli and performed the same task for houses. In Experiments 1 and 3, at the fastest reaction times, participants detected faces more accurately than houses. However, there was no benefit of

SUBMITTER: Cabral L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7297860 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature