Context over categories in social vision

For more than two decades, research on social vision has been guided by modular accounts of cortical organization, in which regions such as the Extrastriate Body Area (EBA) are specialized for processing specific categories of visual stimuli. Here, I argue that the EBA is better understood as a flexible, context-sensitive node embedded within distributed neural systems. This perspective reflects a shift from static maps of category-selectivity toward dynamic accounts of how activity and connectivity across the visual system support behavior. Thus, future work must capture how specialized systems flexibly coordinate in complex social environments.