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Visual looming is a primitive for human emotion
2023-08-31
Abstract excerpt
Looming objects afford threat of collision across the animal kingdom. Defensive responses to looming and neural computations for looming detection are strikingly conserved across species. In mammals, information about rapidly approaching threats is conveyed from the retina to the midbrain superior colliculus, where variables that indicate the position and velocity of approach are computed to enable defensive behav...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 736185f0-1ca4-56e6-b024-25b5e5e0416e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.08.29.555380