We examined the neural correlates of visual shape configuration, the binding of local shape
characteristics into wholistic object descriptions, by comparing the regional cerebral blood …

Neuroimaging research has identified category-specific neural response patterns to a
limited set of object categories. For example, faces, bodies, and scenes evoke activity …

In humans, there is a repeated category-selective organization across the lateral and ventral
surfaces of the occipitotemporal cortex. This apparent redundancy is often explained as a …

The integration of local elements to coherent forms is at the core of understanding visual
perception. Accumulating evidence suggests that both early retinotopic and higher …

Background Experience can alter how objects are represented in the visual cortex. But
experience can take different forms. It is unknown whether the kind of visual experience …

A rich behavioral literature has shown that human object recognition is supported by a
representation of shape that is tolerant to variations in an object's appearance …

The human extrastriate visual cortex contains functionally distinct regions where neuronal
populations exhibit signals that are selective for objects. How such regions might play a …

Human visual cortex encompasses more than a dozen visual field maps across three major
processing streams. One of these streams is the lateral visual stream, which extends from V1 …

The ability of the human visual system to recognize partially occluded objects is a striking
feat, which has received extensive psychophysical documentation. Here we studied the …

An area in the left fusiform gyrus labelled the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) is claimed to
be especially, or even selectively, responsive to words. We explored how stimulus type and …