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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Developmental Neuroscience

Background:

  • The ventral visual pathway exhibits specialized domains.
  • A common view posits these domains are innately prespecified.

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  • To explore the origins of domain specificity in the brain.
  • To propose an alternative hypothesis for the development of specialized brain areas.

Main Methods:

  • This review synthesizes existing research and theoretical frameworks.
  • It proposes a hypothesis based on developmental principles.

Main Results:

  • The review postulates that domain specificity is not innately prespecified.
  • It hypothesizes that the adult brain emerges from an interplay between domain-general architecture and experience.

Conclusions:

  • The fundamental innate organization of the cortex is a map-based topography.
  • This topography influences environmental mapping, neural connectivity, and information processing.