Fast saccadic and manual responses to faces presented to the koniocellular visual pathway.

ABSTRACT: The parallel pathways of the human visual system differ in their tuning to luminance, color, and spatial frequency. These attunements recently have been shown to propagate to differential processing of higher-order stimuli, facial threat cues, in the magnocellular (M) and parvocellular (P) pathways, with greater sensitivity to clear and ambiguous threat, respectively. The role of the third, koniocellular (K) pathway in facial threat processing, however, remains unknown. To address this gap in knowledge, we briefly presented peripheral face stimuli psychophysically biased towards M, P, or K pathways. Observers were instructed to report via a key-press whether the face was angry or neutral while their eye movements and manual responses were recorded. We found that short-latency saccades were

SUBMITTER: Kveraga K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7343428 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature