Uncovering the neural magnitude and spatio-temporal dynamics of natural image categorization in a fast visual stream.

TL;DR: A comprehensive cartography of selective responses to visual letters and words in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex with direct neural recordings is reported, clarifying key aspects of the neural basis of reading.

TL;DR: Overall, the oddball FPVS paradigm is recommended as an alternative approach to behavioral or traditional event‐related potential EEG measures of face individuation, including its (a)typical development, with early studies supporting the application of this technique to clinical testing (e.g., autism spectrum disorder).

TL;DR: The findings point to the value of FPVS coupled with electroencephalography to assess specialized face perception processes throughout development with the same methodology, and show that previous discrepant results in the literature reflect a genuine nonlinear development of the neural processes underlying face perception.

TL;DR: This approach reconciles the wide distribution of neural face categorization responses with their (right) hemispheric and regional specialization, and reveals several face‐selective regions in anterior VOTC sulci.

TL;DR: This paper forms a null hypothesis and shows that the nonparametric test controls the false alarm rate under this null hypothesis, enabling neuroscientists to construct their own statistical test, maximizing the sensitivity to the expected effect.

TL;DR: The data allow us to reject alternative accounts of the function of the fusiform face area (area “FF”) that appeal to visual attention, subordinate-level classification, or general processing of any animate or human forms, demonstrating that this region is selectively involved in the perception of faces.

TL;DR: The visual processing needed to perform this highly demanding task can be achieved in under 150 ms, and ERP analysis revealed a frontal negativity specific to no-go trials that develops roughly 150 ms after stimulus onset.