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Prestimulus amygdala spectral activity is associated with visual face awareness
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Alpha cortical oscillations have been proposed to suppress sensory processing in the visual, auditory, and tactile domains, influencing conscious stimulus perception. However, it is unknown whether oscillatory neural activity in the amygdala, a subcortical structure involved in salience detection, has a similar impact on stimulus awareness. Recording intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) from 9 human amygdalae during face detection in a continuous flash suppression task, we found increased spectral prestimulus power and phase coherence, with most consistent effects in the alpha band, when faces were undetected relative to detected, similarly as previously observed in cortex with this task using scalp-EEG. Moreover, selective decreases in the alpha and gamma bands preceded face detection, with individual prestimulus alpha power correlating negatively with detection rate in patients. These findings reveal for the first time that prestimulus subcortical oscillations localized in human amygdala may contribute to perceptual gating mechanisms governing subsequent face detection and offer promising insights on the role of this structure in visual awareness.
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GUEX, Raphael, ROS, Tomas, MÉGEVAND, Pierre, SPINELLI, Laurent, SEECK, Margitta, VUILLEUMIER, Patrik, DOMÍNGUEZ-BORRÀS, Judith. Prestimulus amygdala spectral activity is associated with visual face awareness. _Cerebral Cortex_. 2023. Vol. 33, núm. 4, pàgs. 1044-1057. [consulta: 20 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 1047-3211. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/216051]