ReviewCognitive neuroscience2026
Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex.
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- Multidimensional Feature Tuning in Category Selective Areas of Human Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Category selectivity observed in the human brain is distinct from category selectivity observed in artificial neural networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The reading brain - Transforming vision into language.Progress in neurobiology · 2026Review
- Investigating action topography in visual cortex and deep artificial neural networks.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: Face/body selectivity aligns temporally with animal taxonomy but not with animacy.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Mapping macaque to human cortex with natural scene responses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Neural correlates reveal separate stages of spontaneous face perception.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Where do I go? Decoding temporal neural dynamics of scene processing and visuospatial memory interactions using convolutional neural networks.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Behaviorally-relevant features of observed actions dominate cortical representational geometry in natural vision.Research square · 2024Article
- Behaviorally-relevant features of observed actions dominate cortical representational geometry in natural vision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
A wealth of studies report evidence that occipitotemporal cortex tessellates into 'category-selective' brain regions that are apparently specialized for representing ecologically important visual stimuli like faces, bodies, scenes, and tools. Here, we argue that while valuable insights have been gained through the lens of category-selectivity, a more complete view of visual function in occipitotemporal cortex requires centering the behavioral relevance of visual properties in real-world environments rather than stimulus category. Focusing on behavioral relevance challenges a simple mapping between stimulus and visual function in occipitotemporal cortex because the environmental properties relevant to a behavior are visually diverse and how a given property is represented is modulated by our goals. Grounding our thinking in behavioral relevance rather than category-selectivity raises a host of theoretical and empirical issues that we discuss while providing proposals for how existing tools can be harnessed in this light to better understand visual function in occipitotemporal cortex.
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