Inferior temporal cortex (IT) is a key part of the ventral visual pathway implicated in object,
face, and scene perception. But how does IT work? Here, I describe an organizational …

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 …

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 …

We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second—and
these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions. For example, politicians who …

What determines the cortical location at which a given functionally specific region will arise
in development? We tested the hypothesis that functionally specific regions develop in their …

Human object-selective cortex shows a large-scale organization characterized by the high-
level properties of both animacy and object size. To what extent are these neural responses …

How much of the structure of the human mind and brain is already specified at birth, and
how much arises from experience? In this article, we consider the test case of extrastriate …

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 …

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 …

The adult primate visual system comprises a series of hierarchically organized areas. Each
cortical area contains a topographic map of visual space, with different areas extracting …