How does the brain encode information about the environment? Decades of research have
led to the pervasive notion that the object-processing pathway in primate cortex consists of …

Abstract Objects constitute the fundamental currency of our consciousness: they are the
things that we perceive, remember and think about. One of the most important objects for a …

The human brain contains multiple regions with distinct, often highly specialized functions,
from recognizing faces to understanding language to thinking about what others are …

Cortical regions apparently selective to faces, places, and bodies have provided important
evidence for domain-specific theories of human cognition, development, and evolution. But …

Face-selective neurons are observed in the primate visual pathway and are considered as
the basis of face detection in the brain. However, it has been debated as to whether this …

Three of the most robust functional landmarks in the human brain are the selective
responses to faces in the fusiform face area (FFA), scenes in the parahippocampal place …

Highlights•Traditional fMRI group analyses are limited in their ability to inform the human
cognitive architecture.•Functional localization helps establish a robust and cumulative …

For more than 100 years we have known that the visual field is mapped onto the surface of
visual cortex, imposing an inherently spatial reference frame on visual information …

A common view of learning in infancy emphasizes the role of incidental sensory experiences
from which increasingly abstract statistical regularities are extracted. In this view, infant …

We analysed research that makes use of precocial species as animal models to describe the
interaction of predisposed mechanisms and environmental factors in early learning, in …