Sonia Poltoratski

The paper shows that spatial integration in face-selective brain regions enables holistic face recognition and predicts the behavioral impact of face inversion.

The paper shows that spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective brain regions differ, with ventral regions focused on the fovea and lateral regions extending peripherally, linked to distinct white matter connections.

The paper uses population receptive field modeling and high-field fMRI to resolve spatial profiles of figure-ground modulation mechanisms in human V1, revealing feedback from higher visual areas.