2026/02/24 by J Brendan Ritchie, Susan G. Wardle, Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam +2 · 1 voice
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Face Recognition and Perception #Child and Animal Learning Development #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/17588928.2026.2632644
openalex publication_date 2026/02/24 · openalex created_date 2026/02/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/09
We are thankful for the thoughtful commentaries of our colleagues. In our discussion article, we argued for a course correction to how the field approaches the organization of visual function in occipitotemporal cortex (OTC) - one that moves us away from the dominant framework of category-selectivity towards a more ethological one centered on behavioral relevance. Some of the commentaries raised important issues regarding how our proposed framework does (or does not) contrast with category-selectivity. Other commentaries made helpful suggestions for how behavioral relevance can be studied. As a whole, the commentaries show that much work remains to be done, both theoretically and empirically, in developing a framework centered on behavioral relevance.