Animals rely on instinctive behaviors to respond quickly to threats and opportunities. These automatic reactions, crucial for survival and reproduction, are typically controlled by brainstem circuits ...

are critical instinctive reactions for survival and are primarily managed by brainstem circuits involving the medial superior colliculus and periaqueductal gray. These reflexive actions are ...

The superior colliculus (SC) has a topographic map of visual space, but the spatial nature of its output command for orienting gaze shifts remains unclear. Here we show that the SC codes neither ...

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This important study presents a finding on the role of the Inferior Colliculus in sensory prediction, cognitive decision-making, and reward prediction. The evidence supporting the claims of the ...

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Object detection is an essential function of the visual system. Although the visual cortex plays an important role in object detection, the superior colliculus can support detection when the visual ...

The superior colliculus (SC), a major downstream target of basal ganglia efferent output, has a well-established role in PPI in rodents. Lesions of the SC disrupt PPI (Fendt et al., 1994), while ...

Primates are distinguished from other mammals by their heavy reliance on the visual sense, which occurred as a result of natural selection continually favoring those individuals whose visual systems ...