Beyond body vision: the extrastriate body area as a multisensory and social hub

Twenty-five years of research support a shift from viewing the Extrastriate Body Area (EBA) as a purely visual module to recognizing it as a dynamic hub integrating multisensory, motor, and social signals. Inspired by the review of de Gelder and colleagues, we highlight findings that the EBA operates within distributed networks, contributes to emotion and social perception, and encodes predictive representations of body states. Developmental findings, neuromodulatory influences, and evidence from clinical conditions extend its scope. Emerging evidence of EBA involvement in interoceptive and olfactory processing underscores embodied, affect-laden role, motivating reconceptualization as a core integrative key node.