ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2015
A vision of graded hemispheric specialization.
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 155 citations in OpenAlex.
- Is human face recognition lateralized to the right hemisphere due to neural competition with left-lateralized visual word recognition? A critical review.Brain structure & function · 2022Pooled it
- Experience Modulates Visuocortical Responses to Faces in 3- to 6-Year-Old Children.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2027Article
- Multidimensional Feature Tuning in Category Selective Areas of Human Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Literacy acquisition and functional connectivity drive the emergence and continued development of the VWFA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Faces and Word Forms Can Coexist in the Right Ventro-occipital Temporal Cortex-Evidence from Left-Hemisphere Perinatal Stroke.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Visual Word Form Area demonstrates individual and task-agnostic consistency but inter-individual variability.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Category specificity in holistic processing: Reciprocal face-word interference does not extend to body stimuli.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- The Emergence of Topography and Hemispheric Lateralization in High-Level Vision.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026Review
- From adolescence to adulthood: functional fingerprints of high-level visual cortex reveal differential development of visuospatial processing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal changes in category selectivity in visual cortex following pediatric cortical resection.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in dyslexia.The British journal of educational psychology · 2025Article
- Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Role of Sex in Shaping Brain Network Organization During Reading in Developmental Dyslexia.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Visuospatial computations vary by category and stream and continue to develop in adolescence.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Word-selective EEG/MEG responses in the English language obtained with fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS).Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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- Functional resilience of the neural visual recognition system post-pediatric occipitotemporal resection.iScience · 2024Article
- Attenuated processing of vowels in the left temporal cortex predicts speech-in-noise perception deficit in children with autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2024Article
- Hemispheric dominance in reading system alters contribution to face processing lateralization across development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
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 of vision, faces and words come to be represented adjacent to retinotopic cortex by virtue of the need to discriminate among homogeneous exemplars. Orthographic representations are further constrained to be proximal to typically left-lateralized language-related information to minimize connectivity length between visual and language areas. As reading is acquired, orthography comes to rely more heavily (albeit not exclusively) on the left fusiform region to bridge vision and language. Consequently, due to competition from emerging word representations, face representations that were initially bilateral become lateralized to the right fusiform region (albeit, again, not exclusively). We review recent research that describes constraints that give rise to this graded hemispheric arrangement. We then summarize empirical evidence from a variety of studies (behavioral, evoked response potential, functional imaging) across different populations (children, adolescents, and adults; left handers and individuals with developmental dyslexia) that supports the claims that hemispheric lateralization is graded rather than binary and that this graded organization emerges dynamically over the course of development. Perturbations of this system either during development or in adulthood provide further insights into the principles governing hemispheric organization.
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