News Finding: Competitive reorganization of category-selective visual cortex following "severe anatomical perturbation" (resection of right occipitotemporal cortex) — with intact cognitive and high-level visual function #plasticity Liu et al. in @username:  
Paper Finding: In category-selective visual cortices, however, object-and sceneselective regions in the intact left hemisphere were stable early on, but regions subserving face and word recognition emerged later and evinced competition for cortical representation.
News Context: Competitive reorganization of category-selective visual cortex following "severe anatomical perturbation" (resection of right occipitotemporal cortex) — with intact cognitive and high-level visual function #plasticity Liu et al. in @username:  
Paper Context: showed age-appropriate intellectual performance and visuoperceptual face and object recognition skills. In category-selective visual cortices, however, object-and sceneselective regions in the intact left hemisphere were stable early on, but regions subserving face and word recognition emerged later and evinced competition for cortical representation. These findings reveal alterations in the selectivity and topography of category-selective regions when confined to a single hemisphere and provide insights into dynamic functional changes in extrastriate cortical architecture.