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

For more than 100 years we have known that the visual field is mapped onto the surface of
visual cortex, imposing an inherently spatial reference frame on visual information …

The human brain contains multiple regions with distinct, often highly specialized functions,
from recognizing faces to understanding language to thinking about what others are …

The fusiform face area responds selectively to faces and is causally involved in face
perception. How does face-selectivity in the fusiform arise in development, and why does it …

Visual representations of bodies, in addition to those of faces, contribute to the recognition of
con-and heterospecifics, to action recognition, and to nonverbal communication. Despite its …

For centuries, anecdotal evidence such as the perfect pitch of the blind piano tuner or blind
musician has supported the notion that individuals who have lost their sight early in life have …

Understanding how the young infant brain starts to categorize the flurry of ambiguous
sensory inputs coming in from its complex environment is of primary scientific interest. Here …

We can sense an object's shape by vision or touch. Previous studies suggested that the
inferolateral occipitotemporal cortex (ILOTC) implements supramodal shape representations …

Highlights•Homeostatic mechanisms may sustain persistent representation of a missing
hand.•Recent evidence indicates distributed latent activity across the homunculus.• …

ABSTRACT A core assumption in the current neurosemantic research is that meanings of
concrete words (object nouns, action verbs) are at least partially grounded in modality …