ReviewAnnual review of vision science2018
The Organization and Operation of Inferior Temporal Cortex.
Review in Annual review of vision science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
119 citing papers in PubMed, 263 citations in OpenAlex.
- Temporal Interference Modulates Medial Temporal and Frontoparietal Activity During Mnemonic Discrimination: A High-Resolution Whole-Brain fMRI Investigation.Hippocampus · 2026Article
- Moral and perceptual conflict processing are implemented by distinct brain activation and functional connectivity patterns.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Connectome-based substrates of emotional N-back performance in the adolescent brain cognitive development study.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Behaviorally-relevant features of observed actions dominate cortical representational geometry in natural vision.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Neuronal processing of facial expressions in the primate superior colliculus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Distinct neural responses to punishment anticipation in violent and non-violent individuals with schizophrenia.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Article
- Category selectivity observed in the human brain is distinct from category selectivity observed in artificial neural networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Elevated neurofilament light levels in acute anorexia nervosa are associated with alterations in white matter volume and connectivity networks.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- The cortical canvas.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Structural brain differences associated with panic disorder: an ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group mega-analysis of 4924 individuals worldwide.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Assessing the Relationship Between Volumetric Changes and Functional Connectivity in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Article
- Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex.Cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Simulated Complex Cells Contribute to Object Recognition Through Representational Untangling.Neural computation · 2026Article
- Article
- Construction of a personality trait prediction model based on color perception preference and personalized cognitive intervention pathways in art education.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Alterations of White Matter Structural Brain Network in Children With Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Graph Theory Analysis for Auditory Sensitivity Period.Neural plasticity · 2026Article
- The representation of object concepts across the brain.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Enhanced neural plasticity in monkey TE compared to TEO during learning of a feature-ambiguous visual categorization task.Nature communications · 2025Article
59 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Inferior temporal cortex (IT) is a key part of the ventral visual pathway implicated in object, face, and scene perception. But how does IT work? Here, I describe an organizational scheme that marries form and function and provides a framework for future research. The scheme consists of a series of stages arranged along the posterior-anterior axis of IT, defined by anatomical connections and functional responses. Each stage comprises a complement of subregions that have a systematic spatial relationship. The organization of each stage is governed by an eccentricity template, and corresponding eccentricity representations across stages are interconnected. Foveal representations take on a role in high-acuity object vision (including face recognition); intermediate representations compute other aspects of object vision such as behavioral valence (using color and surface cues); and peripheral representations encode information about scenes. This multistage, parallel-processing model invokes an innately determined organization refined by visual experience that is consistent with principles of cortical development. The model is also consistent with principles of evolution, which suggest that visual cortex expanded through replication of retinotopic areas. Finally, the model predicts that the most extensively studied network within IT-the face patches-is not unique but rather one manifestation of a canonical set of operations that reveal general principles of how IT works.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.