Early organization and development of the visual pathways
In both human and non-human primates, the ventral visual cortex comprises multiple specialized subregions that are involved in the visual recognition of image categories such as objects, faces or places remarkably similar across individuals despite differences in cultural, linguistic, or socio-economic background. Even for culturally learned skills such as reading, similarly-localized activations are observed across writing systems and ages of acquisition revealing the weight of structural constraints on functional architecture. In this talk, we will examine how an early developing cognitive function, face recognition and a cultural acquisition, reading, settled in the ventral visual cortex, how they interact and what these observations teach us about human brain plasticity and on how education can take advantage of this particular plasticity.
Keywords:
Child Development,
Brain,
Vision,
Language,
Face
Conference:
3rd International Conference on Educational Neuroscience, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 Mar - 12 Mar, 2018.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation (invited speakers only)
Topic:
Educational Neuroscience
Citation:
Dehaene-Lambertz
G
(2018). Early organization and development of the visual pathways.
Conference Abstract:
3rd International Conference on Educational Neuroscience.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.225.00032
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Received:
25 Jan 2018;
Published Online:
14 Dec 2018.
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Correspondence:
Dr. Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, ghislaine.dehaene@cea.fr