Is the human mind/brain composed of a set of highly specialized components, each carrying
out a specific aspect of human cognition, or is it more of a general-purpose device, in which …

Faces are among the most important visual stimuli we perceive, informing us not only about
a person's identity, but also about their mood, sex, age and direction of gaze. The ability to …

Is face perception carried out by modules specialized only for processing faces? Or are
faces perceived by domain-general mechanisms that can also operate on non-face stimuli? …

Humans powerfully and flexibly interpret the behaviour of other people based on an understanding
of their minds: that is, we use a “theory of mind.” In this study we distinguish theory of …

Medial temporal brain regions such as the hippocampal formation and parahippocampal
cortex have been generally implicated in navigation 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 and visual memory 7 , 8 , …

Materials and Methods General Design This study had three main parts. In Part I, we searched
for any occipitotemporal areas that might be specialized for face perception by looking …

Here we review recent findings that reveal the functional properties of extra-striate regions
in the human visual cortex that are involved in the representation and perception of objects. …

Despite extensive evidence for regions of human visual cortex that respond selectively to
faces, few studies have considered the cortical representation of the appearance of the rest of …

Functional neuroimaging has proven highly valuable in mapping human sensory regions,
particularly visual areas in occipital cortex. Recent evidence suggests that human parietal …

The studies described here use functional magnetic resonance imaging to test whether
common or distinct cognitive and/or neural mechanisms are involved in extracting object …