Theories of attention posit that attentional guidance operates on information held in a target
template within memory. The template is often thought to contain veridical target features …

Patterns of brain activity contain meaningful information about the perceived world. Recent
decades have welcomed a new era in neural analyses, with computational techniques from …

The visual word form area in the occipitotemporal sulcus (here OTS-words) is crucial for
reading and shows a preference for text stimuli. We hypothesized that this text preference …

Cortical arealization arises during neurodevelopment from the confluence of molecular
gradients representing patterned expression of morphogens and transcription factors …

Functional brain responses are strongly influenced by connectivity. Recently, we
demonstrated a major example of this: category discriminability within occipitotemporal …

Background Advances in neonatal care have increased survival rates for premature or low
birth weight (LBW) infants but raised concerns about long-term neurosensory and …

Spatial attention is often described as a mental spotlight that enhances information
processing at the attended location. Using fMRI, we investigated background connectivity …

With advancing age, the distinctiveness of neural representations of information declines.
While the finding of this so-called 'age-related neural dedifferentiation'in category-selective …

Selective attention enables humans to efficiently process visual stimuli by enhancing
important locations or objects and filtering out irrelevant information. Locating visual …

Attention enables the selective processing of relevant information. Two types of selective
attention, spatial and feature attention, have separable neural effects but in real life are often …