Searching for Face-Category Representation in the Avian Visual Forebrain.
conspecific recognition
extrastriate cortex
face cell
face-category
face-selective neurons
object representation
pigeon visual forebrain
tectofugal pathway
Journal
Frontiers in physiology
ISSN: 1664-042X
Titre abrégé: Front Physiol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101549006
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
11
10
2018
accepted:
07
02
2019
entrez:
16
3
2019
pubmed:
16
3
2019
medline:
16
3
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Visual information is processed hierarchically along a ventral ('what') pathway that terminates with categorical representation of biologically relevant visual percepts (such as faces) in the mammalian extrastriate visual cortex. How birds solve face and object representation without a neocortex is a long-standing problem in evolutionary neuroscience, though multiple lines of evidence suggest that these abilities arise from circuitry fundamentally similar to the extrastriate visual cortex. The aim of the present experiment was to determine whether birds also exhibit a categorical representation of the avian face-region in four visual forebrain structures of the tectofugal visual pathway: entopallium (ENTO), mesopallium ventrolaterale (MVL), nidopallium frontolaterale (NFL), and area temporo-parieto-occipitalis (TPO). We performed electrophysiological recordings from the right and left hemispheres of 13 pigeons while they performed a Go/No-Go task that required them to discriminate between two sets of stimuli that included images of pigeon faces. No neurons fired selectively to only faces in either ENTO, NFL, MVL, or TPO. Birds' predisposition to attend to the local-features of stimuli may influence the perception of faces as a global combination of features, and explain our observed absence of face-selective neurons. The implementation of naturalistic viewing paradigms in conjunction with electrophysiological and fMRI techniques has the potential to promote and uncover the global processing of visual objects to determine whether birds exhibit category-selective patches in the tectofugal visual forebrain.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30873042
doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00140
pmc: PMC6400864
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
140Références
J Comp Neurol. 1999 Apr 12;406(3):329-45
pubmed: 10102499
Behav Brain Res. 1999 Feb 1;98(2):183-91
pubmed: 10683106
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2001 Jan;27(1):3-16
pubmed: 11199512
Methods. 2003 Jun;30(2):152-8
pubmed: 12725781
Nat Neurosci. 2003 Sep;6(9):989-95
pubmed: 12925854
Neuropsychologia. 1992 Sep;30(9):761-8
pubmed: 1407491
Learn Behav. 2003 Nov;31(4):307-17
pubmed: 14733480
J Comp Neurol. 2004 May 31;473(3):377-414
pubmed: 15116397
J Neurosci. 2004 May 26;24(21):4962-70
pubmed: 15163688
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 Feb;6(2):151-9
pubmed: 15685220
J Comp Neurol. 2005 Sep 12;490(1):40-56
pubmed: 16041718
Brain Res Bull. 2006 Jan 30;68(5):322-8
pubmed: 16377438
Science. 2006 Feb 3;311(5761):670-4
pubmed: 16456083
Cognition. 2007 Aug;104(2):315-44
pubmed: 16905127
J Neurophysiol. 2007 Jun;97(6):4296-309
pubmed: 17428910
Science. 2008 Jun 6;320(5881):1355-9
pubmed: 18535247
Front Syst Neurosci. 2008 Nov 24;2:4
pubmed: 19104670
Neuron. 2008 Dec 26;60(6):1126-41
pubmed: 19109916
J Neurophysiol. 2009 May;101(5):2581-600
pubmed: 19225169
Neurosci Lett. 2009 Jul 17;458(2):75-8
pubmed: 19379793
Nat Neurosci. 2009 Sep;12(9):1187-96
pubmed: 19668199
Science. 2010 Nov 5;330(6005):845-51
pubmed: 21051642
J Vis. 2011 Mar 31;11(3):null
pubmed: 21454855
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2012 Mar;12(1):220-40
pubmed: 22086545
Eur J Neurosci. 2012 Apr;35(8):1337-43
pubmed: 22452655
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Sep 25;109(39):15912-7
pubmed: 22984177
Neuroimage. 2012 Nov 15;63(3):1743-53
pubmed: 23034518
Behav Brain Res. 2013 Feb 15;239:43-50
pubmed: 23137696
Behav Processes. 2013 Feb;93:98-110
pubmed: 23174337
J Neurosci. 2012 Nov 21;32(47):16666-82
pubmed: 23175821
Front Comput Neurosci. 2013 Jul 04;7:89
pubmed: 23847525
Neuron. 2013 Aug 21;79(4):766-81
pubmed: 23891401
Neurosci Lett. 2014 Mar 6;562:85-9
pubmed: 24440787
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jun 10;111(23):8619-24
pubmed: 24812127
Behav Processes. 1994 Dec;33(1-2):41-57
pubmed: 24925239
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Aug 19;111(33):E3467-75
pubmed: 25092328
J Comp Psychol. 2015 Feb;129(1):1-16
pubmed: 25150965
Curr Biol. 2015 Jan 19;25(2):261-266
pubmed: 25578903
J Neurosci. 2015 Jan 21;35(3):1160-72
pubmed: 25609630
J Exp Anal Behav. 2016 Jan;105(1):111-22
pubmed: 26615363
Neuropsychologia. 2016 Mar;83:227-241
pubmed: 26707718
Behav Brain Res. 2016 Apr 15;303:93-102
pubmed: 26802723
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2016 Mar;17(3):183-95
pubmed: 26865020
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2016 Mar;202(3):235-45
pubmed: 26868923
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 1989 Apr;15(2):147-53
pubmed: 2708940
Behav Brain Res. 2016 Sep 1;310:93-102
pubmed: 27173429
Nat Neurosci. 2017 May;20(5):743-752
pubmed: 28288127
Behav Neurosci. 2017 Jun;131(3):213-9
pubmed: 28471222
Cell. 2017 Jun 1;169(6):1013-1028.e14
pubmed: 28575666
Brain Behav Evol. 2017;90(1):62-72
pubmed: 28866684
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 14;114(46):12285-12290
pubmed: 29087337
Front Neural Circuits. 2017 Oct 25;11:81
pubmed: 29118696
Curr Biol. 2018 Mar 5;28(5):686-696.e6
pubmed: 29456143
Learn Behav. 2018 Sep;46(3):229-241
pubmed: 29532328
Nat Commun. 2018 May 2;9(1):1774
pubmed: 29720645
Behav Brain Res. 2019 Jan 1;356:423-434
pubmed: 29885380
Sci Rep. 2018 Jul 2;8(1):9960
pubmed: 29967361
Behav Processes. 2019 Jan;158:70-76
pubmed: 30439476
Science. 1987 Apr 24;236(4800):448-50
pubmed: 3563521
J Comp Neurol. 1970 Sep;140(1):53-68
pubmed: 5459212
Vision Res. 1971 May;11(5):475-8
pubmed: 5558930
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1994 Apr;4(2):157-65
pubmed: 8038571
Vis Neurosci. 1993 Jan-Feb;10(1):21-30
pubmed: 8424926