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 …

Abstract Objects constitute the fundamental currency of our consciousness: they are the
things that we perceive, remember and think about. One of the most important objects for a …

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 …

Learning to read is associated with the appearance of an orthographically sensitive brain
region known as the visual word form area. It has been claimed that development of this …

Artificial activation of neurons in early visual areas induces perception of simple visual
flashes. 1, 2 Accordingly, stimulation in high-level visual cortices is expected to induce …

Highlights•Object representation is intermediate between parts-based and holistic
descriptions.•Intrinsic dimensionality of object representations is approximately one …

Rodents are emerging as increasingly popular models of visual functions. Yet, evidence that
rodent visual cortex is capable of advanced visual processing, such as object recognition, is …

Inferotemporal (IT) cortex in humans and other primates is topographically organized,
containing multiple hierarchically organized areas selective for particular domains, such as …

Interaction between the inferotemporal (ITC) and prefrontal (PFC) cortices is critical for
retrieving information from memory and maintaining it in working memory. Neural …

The ventral visual stream of the human brain is subdivided into patches with categorical
stimulus preferences, like faces or scenes. However, the functional organization within these …