The development of coarse and fine feature tuning in infant visual cortex
Áine T Dineen, Cliona O'Doherty, Anna Truzzi, Anna Kravchenko, Alex R. Wade, Graham King, Enna-Louise D’Arcy, Angela T. Byrne, Ailbhe Tarrant, Adrienne M. Foran, Eleanor J. Molloy, Rhodri Cusack
This study investigates how infant visual cortex encodes coarse and fine visual features using fMRI and deep neural networks, finding that V1 matures early while extrastriate cortex shows prolonged coarse-feature bias.
bioRxiv · Oct 16, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience