Is human face recognition lateralized to the right hemisphere due to neural competition with left-lateralized visual word recognition? A critical review

B Rossion, A Lochy - Brain Structure and Function, 2022 - Springer
The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation? Perspectives and challenges

G Vingerhoets - Physics of life reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Directional hemispheric dominance has been established for numerous cognitive functions
in the human brain. Strong population biases with some functions favoring the left and …

A vision of graded hemispheric specialization

M Behrmann, DC Plaut - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the process by which the cerebral hemispheres reach their mature functional
organization remains challenging. We propose a theoretical account in which, in the domain …

Endophenotype trait domains for advancing gene discovery in autism spectrum disorder

MW Mosconi, CJ Stevens, KE Unruh, R Shafer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with a diverse range of etiological processes,
including both genetic and non-genetic causes. For a plurality of individuals with ASD, it is …

Laterality for recognizing written words and faces in the fusiform gyrus covaries with language dominance

R Gerrits, L Van der Haegen, M Brysbaert… - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Recognizing words and faces engages highly specialized sites within the middle fusiform
gyrus, known as the visual word form area (VWFA) and fusiform face area (FFA) …

Early development of letter specialization in left fusiform is associated with better word reading and smaller fusiform face area

TM Centanni, ES Norton, A Park… - Developmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A functional region of left fusiform gyrus termed “the visual word form area”(VWFA) develops
during reading acquisition to respond more strongly to printed words than to other visual …

The non-linear development of the right hemispheric specialization for human face perception

A Lochy, A De Heering, B Rossion - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
The developmental origins of human adults' right hemispheric specialization for face
perception remain unclear. On the one hand, infant studies have shown a right hemispheric …

Atypical perceptual processing of faces in developmental dyslexia

Y Gabay, E Dundas, D Plaut, M Behrmann - Brain and language, 2017 - Elsevier
Developmental Dyslexia (DD) is often attributed to phonological processing deficits. Recent
evidence, however, indicates the need for a more general explanatory framework to account …

[HTML][HTML] EEG frequency-tagging demonstrates increased left hemispheric involvement and crossmodal plasticity for face processing in congenitally deaf signers

D Bottari, E Bednaya, G Dormal, A Villwock… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
In humans, face-processing relies on a network of brain regions predominantly in the right
occipito-temporal cortex. We tested congenitally deaf (CD) signers and matched hearing …

Assessing the reliability of an online behavioural laterality battery: A pre-registered study

AJ Parker, ZVJ Woodhead, PA Thompson, DVM Bishop - Laterality, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Studies of cerebral lateralization often involve participants completing a series of perceptual
tasks under laboratory conditions. This has constrained the number of participants recruited …