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Postnatal maturation of putamen microstructure accompanies topographic white matter connectivity and altered circuits in autism

The paper examines the postnatal development of putamen microstructure and white matter connectivity in autism, finding preserved organization with increased prefrontal connectivity.

A single computational objective can produce specialization of streams in visual cortex

The paper uses a self-supervised neural network to show that visual streams in the brain may arise from a single computational principle rather than separate behavioral specializations.

Multiphasic myelination and dendritic growth modulate qMRI signals in human visual cortex.

The paper investigates myelin development in human visual cortex using qMRI and immunohistochemistry, finding distinct myelination and R1 trajectories across development.

From adolescence to adulthood: functional fingerprints of high-level visual cortex reveal differential development of visuospatial processing

This study examines how visuospatial processing in high-level visual cortex develops from adolescence to adulthood using fMRI and pRF modeling, revealing category- and stream-specific changes.

Hierarchical microstructural tissue growth of the gray and white matter of human visual cortex during the first year of life

The paper measures microstructural tissue growth in human visual cortex during the first year of life using MRI, finding hierarchical development patterns across visual processing streams.

How infant brains fold: Sulcal deepening is linked to development of sulcal span, thickness, curvature, and microstructure

This study shows that postnatal sulcal deepening in infant brains is nonuniform and depends on prenatal emergence timing, tissue microstructure, and macroanatomical factors.

Cortical and white matter myelination proceed in concert during early infancy

This study shows that gray and white matter myelination are synchronized in early infancy, with synchrony linked to gestational age and motor outcomes.

White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity, and category-selectivity from birth

The paper examines white matter connections in the ventral temporal cortex of infants and adults, finding they are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity, and category-selectivity from birth.

Visuospatial computations vary by category and stream and continue to develop in adolescence

The paper examines how visuospatial computations differ by category and visual stream and how they develop during adolescence using fMRI and pRF modeling.

When Do Visual Category Representations Emerge in Infants' Brains?

The paper investigates when visual category representations emerge in infants' brains using EEG and finds that responses to faces appear first, followed by limbs and places, with more distinct patterns by 6-15 months.

Rethinking simultaneous suppression in visual cortex via compressive spatiotemporal population receptive fields

The paper investigates simultaneous suppression in visual cortex using fMRI and pRF models, finding that compressive spatiotemporal summation explains suppression rather than compressive spatial summation.

Longitudinal development of category representations in ventral temporal cortex predicts word and face recognition

The paper tracks how distributed category representations in ventral temporal cortex develop over time and links these changes to individual differences in word and face recognition.

Characterizing spatiotemporal population receptive fields in human visual cortex with fMRI

This paper develops a computational framework to estimate spatiotemporal population receptive fields from fMRI data, finding that a compressive spatiotemporal model better explains responses than a spatial model across visual areas.

Both mOTS-words and pOTS-words prefer emoji stimuli over text stimuli during a reading task

The study investigates how OTS-words subregions respond to text and emoji stimuli during reading and color tasks, finding both prefer emojis over text, with mOTS-words also showing task-specific responses.

A Unifying Principle for the Functional Organization of Visual Cortex

This paper introduces TDANN, a model that predicts functional organization in primate visual cortex by balancing task-general representation and spatial smoothness, showing improved brain-like representations and applications in prosthetic design.

Comparing retinotopic maps of children and adults reveals a late-stage change in how V1 samples the visual field

The paper compares retinotopic maps in children and adults, finding that children have similar V1 surface area for upper and lower vertical meridians, while adults show asymmetry, indicating a late-stage developmental change.

Human white matter myelination rate slows down at birth

The paper finds that myelin growth slows after birth, particularly in preterm infants, and links this delay to long-term developmental consequences.

White matter connections of high-level visual areas predict cytoarchitecture better than category-selectivity in childhood, but not adulthood

The paper finds that in childhood, white matter connections better predict cytoarchitecture than category-selectivity in VTC, but this relationship holds for both in adulthood.

Attention enhances category representations across the brain with strengthened residual correlations to ventral temporal cortex

The paper investigates how attention enhances neural representations of attended stimuli across the brain and finds that residual correlations with ventral temporal cortex are strengthened.

Holistic face recognition is an emergent phenomenon of spatial integration in face-selective regions

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

Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development

The paper shows that during childhood, face- and word-selective regions in the ventral temporal cortex expand while limb-selective regions shrink, indicating cortical recycling of function.

Differential spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective regions are scaffolded by structural connections

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.

White matter myelination during early infancy is explained by spatial gradients and myelin content at birth

The paper uses MRI data to show that white matter myelination in infants follows spatial gradients and increases with age, as indicated by R1 values.

Infants' cortex undergoes microstructural growth coupled with myelination

The paper shows that infant cortex undergoes microstructural growth linked to myelination, with visual areas developing hierarchically.

White matter fascicles and cortical microstructure predict reading-related responses in human ventral temporal cortex

The paper shows that white matter fascicles and cortical microstructure predict the spatial layout of reading-related responses in lateral ventral temporal cortex.

A probabilistic functional parcellation of human occipito-temporal cortex

This paper develops a functional atlas of early visual and category-selective regions in human occipito-temporal cortex, showing it outperforms volumetric alignment and accurately predicts ROI locations.

Sulcal depth in medial ventral temporal cortex predicts the location of a place-selective region in macaques, children, and adults.

The paper examines the relationship between sulcal depth and place-selectivity in medial ventral temporal cortex across species and age groups, finding stronger coupling in adults.

Diverse temporal dynamics of repetition suppression revealed by intracranial recordings in human ventral temporal cortex

This study uses intracranial recordings to show that repetition suppression in human ventral temporal cortex occurs in high-frequency broadband signals and persists throughout stimulus processing.

Extensive individual differences of category information in ventral temporal cortex in the congenitally blind

The paper shows that category representations in VTC of congenitally blind individuals vary widely, with some showing similarity to sighted individuals despite group-level differences.

Combined neural tuning in human ventral temporal cortex resolves perceptual ambiguity

The paper shows that combining neural responses from face- and body-selective regions in VTC better predicts categorization performance than individual regions, suggesting integration of information across domains.