Mammals acquire much of their sensory information by actively moving their sensory organs.
Yet, the principles of encoding by active sensing are not known. Here we investigated the …

The visual word form area (VWFA) is a ventral stream visual area that develops expertise for
visual reading [1–3]. It is activated across writing systems and scripts [4, 5] and encodes …

In the vibrissal system, touch information is conveyed by a receptorless whisker hair to
follicle mechanoreceptors, which then provide input to the brain. We examined whether any …

How does reading expertise change the visual system? Here, we explored whether the visual
system could develop dedicated perceptual mechanisms in early and intermediate visual …

10.7554/eLife.10762.001 The brain is capable of large-scale reorganization in blindness or
after massive injury. Such reorganization crosses the division into separate sensory cortices (…

The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) is part of the left ventral visual stream that underlies the
invariant identification of visual words. It remains debated whether this region is truly …

The principles that guide large-scale cortical reorganization remain unclear. In the blind,
several visual regions preserve their task specificity; ventral visual areas, for example, become …

Object recognition relies heavily on invariant visual features such as the manner in which
lines meet at vertices to form viewpoint-invariant junctions (eg T, L). We wondered whether …

Fast effortless reading has been associated with the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), a
region in the ventral visual stream that specializes in the recognition of letter strings. Several …

Rats explore their environment by actively moving their whiskers. Recently, we described
how object location in the horizontal (front–back) axis is encoded by first-order neurons in the …