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Does domain formation happens due to the closure of the critical period window? Is this applicable to all other sensory modality as well?

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In response to the Arcaro paper: Can the same be said for other vision-related domains of the brain? In other words, are any domains of the brain truly “innate” rather than present due to their use to our everyday life? Would there be an innate “color” or “depth” domain of the brain if we deprived our everyday life of color or depth? The brain is very plastic so wouldn’t any domain become non-existent if it was not being used?

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of having an experientially developed (rather than innate) face domain?

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What other category specific domains or brain regions, or abilities can we think of that might not develop without experience?

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How could understanding recognition as a neuroscientific concept better inform the art one makes?

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The Livingstone article mentioned that monkeys raised without exposure to faces developed domains for other things like bodies and hands. If this period of no face exposure was extended, do you think the responses/domains would be as strongly reactive to hands, for example, as ours are to faces? Would we use them for the same things; i.e. recognizing people, reading emotions (kind of like using body language)? In the face-centric world many of us live in, it is not uncommon to see/create faces in every day objects or scenes. Without so much prior experience with faces, would we begin recognizing/creating hand-like shapes from our daily life?

We know that top down processing can influence our interpretation of what we see, “often at the expense of accuracy,” but how far does this go? Does what emotionally makes sense ever influence what we see in addition to what physically would make sense (i.e. shadows, gravity, our understanding of light sources, etc.)?

Has there been any studies done on how mask wearing has affected development of face recognition in the past year and a half?

The second reading talks about a patient, Dr. P, who suffered some kind of brain injury that prevented his brain from influencing what he saw such that he was able to see details and lines but not to group them into scenes or objects. He had to, for example, smell a rose in order to identify the visual input he received as a rose. How much of our top-down vision is influenced by our other senses? For example, if I hear a familiar person's voice am I more likely to, at a glance, "see" a stranger as someone I know? Which of our other senses is most connected to vision?

How come we don’t all recount a point early in our lives where we saw the world as Dr. P, suffering from a cortical lesion, saw the world? Is it simply because we have no memory of this, or does this suggest there is some “pre-training” within our layers of visual cortex to help resolve the existence of objects? This pre-training idea seems to conflict with the face-domain formation experiment findings, but then how are we able to individually train our brains, with different life experiences, to perform object detection and resolve a (somewhat) homogenous reality?

Are humans less good at recognition tasks now that we can rely on photographs and visual data more easily, or are we better now that we are trained to digest more information on a daily basis?

what has been learnt from facial recognition algorithms/models especially as it relates to what must be built in to it in order have facial recognition? and can this give us insight into what our understanding of facial perception?

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