Task Modulation of Single-Neuron Activity in the Human Amygdala and Hippocampus
Task Modulation of Single-Neuron Activity in the Human Amygdala and Hippocampus
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DOI：
10.1523/eneuro.0398-21.2021
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发表时间：
2022-01-01
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3.4
通讯作者：
Wang, Shuo
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作者：
Cao, Runnan;Todorov, Alexander;Wang, Shuo
The human amygdala and hippocampus are critically involved in various processes in face perception. However, it remains unclear how task demands or evaluative contexts modulate processes underlying face perception. In this study, we employed two task instructions when participants viewed the same faces and recorded single-neuron activity from the human amygdala and hippocampus. We comprehensively analyzed task modulation for three key aspects of face processing and we found that neurons in the amygdala and hippocampus (1) encoded high-level social traits such as perceived facial trustworthiness and dominance and this response was modulated by task instructions; (2) encoded low-level facial features and demonstrated region-based feature coding, which was not modulated by task instructions; and (3) encoded fixations on salient face parts such as the eyes and mouth, which was not modulated by task instructions. Together, our results provide a comprehensive survey of task modulation of neural processes underlying face perception at the single-neuron level in the human amygdala and hippocampus.
