Neurological insults, such as congenital blindness, deafness, amputation, and stroke, often
result in surprising and impressive behavioural changes. Cortical reorganisation, which …

The acquisition of literacy transforms the human brain. By reviewing studies of illiterate
subjects, we propose specific hypotheses on how the functions of core brain systems are …

The human ventral visual stream has a highly systematic organization of object information,
but the causal pressures driving these topographic motifs are highly debated. Here, we use …

Crossmodal plasticity is a textbook example of the ability of the brain to reorganize based on
use. We review evidence from the auditory system showing that such reorganization has …

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 …

Understanding and responding to other people's actions is fundamental for social
interactions. Whereas many studies emphasize the importance of parietal and frontal …

Multisensory processes are fundamental in scaffolding perception, cognition, learning, and
behavior. How and when stimuli from different sensory modalities are integrated rather than …

Un socle génétique, notre ADN (acide désoxyribonucléique), composé de trois milliards de
paires de nucléotides1, sorte de «gros œuvre» qui détermine la mise en place d'un réseau …

Deep in the occipitotemporal cortex lie two functional regions, the visual word form area
(VWFA) and the number form area (NFA), which are thought to play a special role in letter …