Limbic-Brainstem Roles in Perception, Cognition, Emotion and BehaviorHisao Nishijo, Robert Rafal, Marco Tamietto Frontiers Media SA, Aug 3, 2018 The brainstem-limbic regions, including the superior colliculus, pulvinar and amygdala, receive direct perceptual information as a rapid, coarse, subcortical sensory system bypassing early sensory cortical systems, and play a central role in innate behaviors, including motivated and avoidance behaviors. Recent human neuropsychological studies including those on cortical blindness suggest that these subcortical sensory pathways are functional in the intact human brain and interact with more evolutionary recent cortical systems. This eBook presents up-to-date advancements in this area and to highlight the functions of the brainstem-limbic regions in a variety of perceptual, cognitive, affective and behavioral domains. We hope that this current Research Topic provides a comprehensive review to understand roles of the subcortical brainstem-limbic regions in some forms of sensory-motor coupling, cognitive and affective functions. |
Contents
LimbicBrainstem Roles in Perception Cognition Emotion and Behavior | 5 |
Facts and Interpretations | 8 |
Is the Pulvinar a Crucial Player? | 21 |
Neural Responses from a Blind Visual Hemifield | 30 |
Deafferentation of the Superior Colliculus Abolishes Spatial Summation of Redundant Visual Signals | 44 |
Suppression of Emotional Faces in the Temporal Visual Hemifield | 52 |
Informative Cues Facilitate Saccadic Localization in Blindsight Monkeys | 60 |
Population Coding of Facial Information in the Monkey Superior Colliculus and Pulvinar | 71 |
Reward and Behavioral Factors Contributing to the Tonic Activity of Monkey Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus Neurons during Saccade Tasks | 125 |
How Saccade Intrusions Affect Subsequent Motor and Oculomotor Actions | 135 |
Computational Psychiatry and Psychometrics Based on NonConscious Stimuli Input and Pupil Response Output | 147 |
Pregenual Anterior Cingulate Gyrus Involvement in Spontaneous Social Interactions in PrimatesEvidence from Behavioral Pharmacological Neurops... | 152 |
Interoception and Psychopathology for Psychotherapists | 162 |
The Role of Suppression Priming | 178 |
Amygdalar Auditory Neurons Contribute to SelfOther Distinction during Ultrasonic Social Vocalization in Rats | 185 |
Posttraining Inactivation of the Anterior Thalamic Nuclei Impairs Spatial Performance on the Radial Arm Maze | 197 |
Interactions between the Superior ColliculusPulvinar Pathway and Stimuli Relevant to Primates | 85 |
An Evolutionary Hypothesis of Binary Opposition in Functional Incompatibility about Habenular Asymmetry in Vertebrates | 104 |
Defensive Vocalizations and Motor Asymmetry Triggered by Disinhibition of the Periaqueductal Gray in Nonhuman Primates | 115 |
Altered Morphologies and Functions of the Olfactory Bulb and Hippocampus Induced by miR30c | 207 |
Back Cover | 220 |