Neuroscientists have long debated whether focal brain regions perform specific cognitive
functions [1–5], and the issue remains central to a current debate about visual object …

The information contents of memory are the cornerstone of the most influential models in
cognition. To illustrate, consider that in predictive coding, a prediction implies that specific …

If the brain is a machine that processes information, then its cognitive activity can be
interpreted as a set of information processing states linking stimulus to response (ie as a …

Higher visual areas in the occipitotemporal cortex contain discrete regions for face
processing, but it remains unclear if V 1 is modulated by top‐down influences during face …

Horizontal information was recently suggested to be crucial for face identification. In the
present paper, we expand on this finding and investigate the role of orientations for all the …

The two visual pathway description of [Ungerleider, LG, & Mishkin, M. Two cortical visual
systems. In DJ Dingle, MA Goodale, & RJW Mansfield (Eds.), Analysis of visual behavior (pp …

Translating sensory information into perceptual decisions is a core challenge faced by the
brain. This ability is understood to rely on weighting sensory evidence in order to form …

Existing data indicate that cortical speech processing is hierarchically organized. Numerous
studies have shown that early auditory areas encode fine acoustic details while later areas …

Theoretical accounts suggest an increased and automatic neural processing of emotional,
especially threat‐related, facial expressions and emotional prosody. In line with this …

We report three behavioral experiments on the spatial characteristics evoking illusory face
and letter detection. False detections made to pure noise images were analyzed using a …