Publications

Journal Articles

Ayzenberg, V. (2026). Prenatal and multimodal origins of face perception. Nature Reviews Psychology. 

Chin, J. H., Wyburd, M. K., Ayzenberg, V., Bayet, L., Bilgic, B., Chen, E. M., Chen, Y., Dineen, Á., Fujita, S., Liu, J., Jun, Y., Camacho, M. C., & Zöllei, L. (2026). Deep learning in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 78, 101680.

Ayzenberg, V., Sener, S.B., Novick, K., & Lourenco, S. F. (2025). Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children. Science Advances. 11(27), eads6821.

Ayzenberg, V., & Song. C., Arcaro, M.J. (2025). An intrinsic hierarchical, retinotopic organization of visual pulvinar connectivity in the human neonate. Current Biology. 35(2), 300-314.

Thieu, M. K., Ayzenberg, V., & Lourenco, S. F., & Kragel, P. A. (2024). Visual looming is a primitive for human emotion. iScience, 27(6).

Liu, Y., Ayzenberg, V., Lourenco, S.F. (2024). Object geometry serves humans’ intuitive physics of stability. Scientific Reports.

Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2023). Development of visual object recognition. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-18.

Ayzenberg, V., Granovetter, M., Robert, S.H., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2023). Differential functional reorganization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways following childhood hemispherectomy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101323.

Ayzenberg, V., Simmons, C., & Behrmann, M. (2023). Temporal asymmetries and interactions between dorsal to ventral visual pathways during object recognition. Cerebral Cortex Communications.

Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2022). Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 

*Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2023). Reply to Xu: An expanded neural framework for shape perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

*Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2023). Reply to Goodale and Milner: The where, what, and how of object recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Ayzenberg, V., & Lourenco, S. (2022). Perception of an object’s global shape is best described by a model of skeletal structure in human infants. eLife.

Ayzenberg, V., Behrmann, M. (2022). The dorsal visual pathway represents object-centered spatial relations for object recognition. Journal of Neuroscience. [pre-print].

Ayzenberg, V., Kamps, F.S., Dilks, D.D., Lourenco, S.F. (2022). Skeletal representations of shape in the human visual cortex. Neuropsychologia, 164, 108092. [pre-print].

Ayzenberg, V., & Lourenco, S. F. (2020). A network for geometric representations: Relations between navigation, analog magnitude, and object analysis. Cognitive Development. 56, 100951. [pre-print].

Ayzenberg, V., & Lourenco, S. F. (2019). Skeletal descriptions of shape provide unique perceptual information for object recognition. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-13. 

Ayzenberg, V., Chen, Y., Yousif, S., & Lourenco, S. F. (2019). Skeletal representations of shape in human vision: Evidence for a pruned medial axis model. Journal of Vision. 19, 1-21. 

Ayzenberg, V., Hickey, M., & Lourenco, S. F. (2018). Pupillometry reveals the physiological underpinnings of the aversion to holes. PeerJ, 6, e4185. 

Lourenco, S., Aulet, L., Ayzenberg, V., Cheung, C., & Holmes, K. (2017). Right idea, wrong magnitude system [Commentary on Leibovich et al.]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, E177. 

Holmes, K. J., Ayzenberg, V., & Lourenco, S. F. (2016). Gamble on gaze: Eye movements reflect the numerical value of blackjack hands. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-8.

 Lourenco, S. F., Ayzenberg, V., & Lyu, J. (2016). A general magnitude system in human adults: Evidence from a subliminal priming paradigm. Cortex, 81, 91-103. 

Cheung, C.-N., Ayzenberg, V., Diamond, R. F. L., Yousif, S., & Lourenco, S. F. (2015). Probing the mental number line: A between-task analysis of spatial-numerical associations. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 357-362). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.  

Preprints

Ayzenberg, V., Nag, S., Krivoshik, A., & Lourenco, S. F. (2021). Spatial and featural cue weighting in children’s developing object representations. PsyArxiv.