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DiCarlo and Maunsell show that neuronal responses in the inferotemporal cortex remain the same whether an animal is fixating or making eye movements. This reassures us that measurements made under reduced conditions generalize to real-world situations.
Serafini and colleagues provide evidence that neuroligin acts as a trans-neuronal signal to induce presynaptic differentiation at neuron–neuron connections in vitro.
Wang and colleagues demonstrate how local inhibition contributes to generating the remarkable specificity of responses of inferotemporal cortical neurons for complex stimulus features.
Many features are mapped onto the primary visual cortex. A new study shows that these maps are arranged in a way that optimizes the representation of each feature at each location in visual space.
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? Considerable evidence supports the domain-specific view.
Much evidence suggests that the fusiform face area is involved in face processing. In contrast to the accompanying article by Kanwisher, we conclude that the apparent face selectivity of this area reflects a more generalized form of processing not intrinsically specific to faces.
