We recently demonstrated that attending to the form of objects and attending to their surface
properties activated anatomically distinct regions of occipito-temporal cortex (Cant and …

In this study, we investigated how Arabic digits are represented in the visual cortex, and how
their representation changes throughout the ventral visual processing stream, compared to …

Background The visual cortex of the human brain contains specialized modules for
processing different visual features of an object. Confronted with multiple objects, the system …

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

The perception of coherent form configurations in natural scenes relies on the activity of
early visual areas that respond to local orientation cues. Subsequently, high-level visual …

Abstract Systems that encode and store visual form information are examined in three sets of
investigations. Results in the first paper indicate that letter-case-specific word priming, but …

Visual form and position perception in primates is thought to engage two different sets of
cortical visual areas. However, the original concept of two functionally different and …

In a previous event-related fMRI study, we showed that the left occipitotemporal cortex was
specifically involved in the abstract categorization of visually presented alphabetic symbols …

Cohen and Dehaene et al. proposed that the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) in the left
midfusiform gyrus, contrary to its name, is limited to the extraction of an abstract letter string …

Previous neurophysiological studies of the frontal eye field (FEF) in monkeys have focused
on its role in saccade target selection and gaze shift control. It has been argued that FEF …