Longitudinal development of category representations in ventral temporal cortex predicts word and face recognition

M Nordt, J Gomez, VS Natu, AA Rezai, D Finzi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Regions in ventral temporal cortex that are involved in visual recognition of categories like
words and faces undergo differential development during childhood. However, categories …

A genuine interindividual variability in number and anatomical localization of face-selective regions in the human brain

X Gao, M Wen, M Sun, B Rossion - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Neuroimaging studies have reported regions with more neural activation to face than
nonface stimuli in the human occipitotemporal cortex for three decades. Here we used a …

Characterizing spatiotemporal population receptive fields in human visual cortex with fMRI

I Kim, ER Kupers, G Lerma-Usabiaga… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
The use of fMRI and computational modeling has advanced understanding of spatial
characteristics of population receptive fields (pRFs) in human visual cortex. However, we …

Multimodal processing in face-to-face interactions: A bridging link between psycholinguistics and sensory neuroscience

S Benetti, A Ferrari, F Pavani - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In face-to-face communication, humans are faced with multiple layers of discontinuous
multimodal signals, such as head, face, hand gestures, speech and non-speech sounds …

[HTML][HTML] Low-level tuning biases in higher visual cortex reflect the semantic informativeness of visual features

MM Henderson, MJ Tarr, L Wehbe - Journal of Vision, 2023 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Abstract Representations of visual and semantic information can overlap in human visual
cortex, with the same neural populations exhibiting sensitivity to low-level features …

What Are the Contributions and Challenges of Direct Intracranial Electrical Stimulation in Human Cognitive Neuroscience?

J Jonas, B Rossion - Intracranial EEG: A Guide for Cognitive …, 2023 - Springer
Direct electrical stimulation (DES) is an old and powerful technique to causally inform about
the localization of human brain function for clinical and research purposes. However, DES …

Measuring the response to visually presented faces in the human lateral prefrontal cortex

L Nikel, MW Sliwinska, E Kucuk… - Cerebral Cortex …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Neuroimaging studies identify multiple face-selective areas in the human brain. In the
current study, we compared the functional response of the face area in the lateral prefrontal …

Establishing the functional relevancy of white matter connections in the visual system and beyond

M Grotheer, E Kubota, K Grill-Spector - Brain Structure and Function, 2022 - Springer
For over a century, researchers have examined the functional relevancy of white matter
bundles. Consequently, many large-scale bundles spanning several centimeters have been …

Direct comparison of contralateral bias and face/scene selectivity in human occipitotemporal cortex

EH Silson, IIA Groen, CI Baker - Brain Structure and Function, 2022 - Springer
Human visual cortex is organised broadly according to two major principles: retinotopy (the
spatial mapping of the retina in cortex) and category-selectivity (preferential responses to …

Radial bias in face identification

A Roux-Sibilon, C Peyrin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human vision in the periphery is most accurate for stimuli that point towards the fovea. This
so-called radial bias has been linked with the organization and spatial selectivity of neurons …