The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

It is a common view that the intricate array of specialized domains in the ventral visual
pathway is innately prespecified. What this review postulates is that they are not. We explore …

In expert readers, a brain region known as the visual word form area (VWFA) is highly
sensitive to written words, exhibiting a posterior-to-anterior gradient of increasing sensitivity …

High-level visual areas in ventral temporal cortex (VTC) support recognition of important
categories, such as faces and words. Word-selective regions are left lateralized and emerge …

Children show an enormous capacity to learn during development, but with large individual
differences in the time course and trajectory of learning and the achieved skill level. Recent …

Most of our knowledge about the neural networks mediating reading has derived from
studies of developmental dyslexia (DD). For much of the 20th C. this was diagnosed on the …

Face processing dominates the right hemisphere. This lateralization can be affected by co-
lateralization within the same system and influence between different systems, such as …

The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex has been traditionally viewed as a pathway for visual
object recognition including written letters and words. Its crucial role in reading was …

Children's white matter development is driven by experience, yet it remains poorly
understood how it is shaped by attending formal education. A small number of studies …

The right and left cerebral hemispheres are important for face and word recognition,
respectively—a specialization that emerges over human development. The question is …