Brianna Jeska

Apparent thinning of visual cortex during childhood is associated with myelination, not pruning

The paper investigates microstructural changes in the visual cortex during childhood and finds that apparent thinning is due to increased myelination rather than pruning.

Differential Sustained and Transient Temporal Processing Across Visual Streams

This paper models neural responses with millisecond precision to reveal differences in temporal processing between lateral and ventral visual streams in humans.

Learning to read increases the informativeness of distributed ventral temporal responses

This study shows that reading proficiency develops with increased informativeness of distributed left lateral ventral temporal cortex responses to words and characters.

Development differentially sculpts receptive fields across human visual cortex

The paper investigates how receptive fields develop in human visual cortex, finding that face- and word-selective regions undergo changes into adulthood, while early visual areas are adult-like by age 5.

An encoding model of temporal processing in human visual cortex

This study develops a temporal-channel encoding model to predict fMRI responses and reveals how transient and sustained channels contribute to visual processing in different regions of the human visual cortex.