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ReviewAnnual review of neuroscience2024

A Whole-Brain Topographic Ontology.

Michael Arcaro, Margaret Livingstone

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Review in Annual review of neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Multidimensional Feature Tuning in Category Selective Areas of Human Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  7. Binocular Circuitry as a Model for Understanding Experience-Dependent Circuit Development across the Mammalian Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  12. TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography.... International Conference on Learning Representations · 2025
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  13. Expansion of a conserved architecture drives the evolution of the primate visual cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. Altered brain state dynamics between preterm and term-born infants.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael ArcaroDepartment of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Margaret LivingstoneDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; email: mlivingstone@hms.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Viral ModuleP30EY012196 · NEI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI ZHIGANG HE · 1998 to 2026
$21.3M
The normal development of inferotemporal cortexR01EY025670 · NEI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI LIVINGSTONE, MARGARET S · 2015 to 2025
$5.7M
Effects of Abnormal Early Experience on IT CircuitryR01NS123778 · NINDS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI LIVINGSTONE, MARGARET S · 2021 to 2025
$3.3M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY012196NEI NIH HHS R01 EY025670NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS123778
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is a common view that the intricate array of specialized domains in the ventral visual pathway is innately prespecified. What this review postulates is that it is not. We explore the origins of domain specificity, hypothesizing that the adult brain emerges from an interplay between a domain-general map-based architecture, shaped by intrinsic mechanisms, and experience. We argue that the most fundamental innate organization of cortex in general, and not just the visual pathway, is a map-based topography that governs how the environment maps onto the brain, how brain areas interconnect, and ultimately, how the brain processes information.

Indexed as

BrainAnimalsBrain MappingHumansVisual Pathwaysdevelopmentdomain specificityexperiencetopography

Identifiers

PMID38360565
PMCPMC12337153
OpenAlexW4391880274

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