Topic: ventrolateral geniculate nucleus

Our brains integrate sensory information with prior-knowledge to guide decisions. However, through which neural pathways experience can adapt behavioural responses is unclear. Predator-avoidance behaviors, particularly escape from visual-threats, represent behavioral manifestations of a decision-making process essential for survival, with the threat-value undergoing constant revision. Learning if a potentially threatening stimulus is dangerous, necessitates the integration of sensory evidence, experience and context. We speculated that visual cortex, in particular higher visual areas (HVAs), w