Infants have rich visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex at 2 months of age

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 02 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02187-8

Using infant fMRI, the authors show that, by 2 months of age, representations in high-level visual cortex encode visual categories that align with deep neural networks, and lateral object-selective regions are later to develop.