Neuroscience research is undergoing a minor revolution. Recent advances in machine
learning and artificial intelligence research have opened up new ways of thinking about …

The desire to reduce the dependence on curated, labeled datasets and to leverage the vast
quantities of unlabeled data has triggered renewed interest in unsupervised (or self …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

Human cortex appears to thin during childhood development. However, the underlying
microstructural mechanisms are unknown. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging …

How does education affect cortical organization? All literate adults possess a region
specialized for letter strings, the visual word form area (VWFA), within the mosaic of ventral …

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

Although each of us was once a baby, infant consciousness remains mysterious and there is
no received view about when, and in what form, consciousness first emerges. Some …

The use of movie-watching as an acquisition state for functional connectivity (FC) MRI has
recently enabled multiple groups to obtain rich data sets in younger children with both …

Here we report that monkeys raised without exposure to faces did not develop face domains,
but did develop domains for other categories and did show normal retinotopic organization …

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 …