In addition, ERPs can be particularly helpful in the investigation of skill acquisition effects, where fMRI findings focusing on localization may mask functionally salient changes in processing efficiency induced by learning (Dorjee & Bowers, 2012).
► Salient information processing engages cortical and subcortical routes to amygdala ► The subcortical pathway is important in early processing stages ► Expedited subcortical processing is not limited to fear related stimuli Published online: December 29, 2011 Our goal was to assess the explanatory power of a fast subcortical route in salient information processing.
We propose that the earlier P3b observed in high anxious subjects could be interpreted as a way to overcome the deficient emotional appraisal by a more salient conscious processing.
We should also point out that although our results are consistent with the related literature on salient visual processing, our data have no bearing on whether brain responses evoked by complex visual stimuli, like faces, are processed by a "low" visual route.
The amygdala is believed to play a key role in processing emotionally salient, threat-relevant, events that require further online processing by cortical regions.
Recently Saliency maps from input images are used to detect interesting regions in images/videos and focus on processing these salient regions.
A plausible synthesis of the evidence so far is that processing of identity and emotional expression proceed largely independently in the early stages of processing, with a fast network of sub-cortical pathways specialized for processing biologically salient features in general and facial emotional expression in particular.
For example, the posterior superior temporal cortex has been implicated in supporting joint action execution (Redcay et al. 2012), prediction of intentions in the other person (Noordzij et al. 2010), perspective-taking and processing socially salient visual cues in situations that require inferences about mental states of others (David et al. 2008).
Image denoising is considered a salient pre-processing step in sophisticated imaging applications.
We adapted methodologies in which salient images or word cues engage pain processing networks in the brain despite the absence of a physical challenge.
