NaturalisticDualism
NaturalisticDualism t1_j8ewd9h wrote
Reply to comment by Songoffireandice in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga
I'm not sure. The study is on epileptics. I'm going to say the language faculty and the amygdala are quite different from my (limited) phonological representations in some models are entirely learned with few or no primitives and the pruning you speak of.
However, Neonates already have some facial recognition software. My understanding in terms of innate structure leads me to hypothesize some deep homology in primates here and appearing early in development.
It's well known that the amygdala can be effected my ACEs, I don't know and would rather not guess. But a nonconscious 100 millisecond process might be hard to retrain. Im doing a bunch of guesswork. Nevertheless what you say is interesting and food for thought. I'm pretty unsure.
NaturalisticDualism t1_j8eefz2 wrote
Reply to comment by MpVpRb in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga
After all the study itself is on a neurodivergent population. I'm no expert on amygdala activity. But I'm not sure I agree with your hypothesis. Though it's underspecified
NaturalisticDualism t1_j8ee7fr wrote
Reply to comment by MpVpRb in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga
Among some of the neurodivergent I'm sure. But I'm not sure the high incidence atypical brains autism etc are completely lacking the mechanism. It's probably a highly conserved computation
NaturalisticDualism t1_j8f4a2w wrote
Reply to comment by fugee99 in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga
Tru dat homie