Two relatively independent areas of visual cognition research examine important aspects of visual object understanding: Object Recognition and Perceptual Categorization. These areas have focused on ...

The ability to identify and categorize objects is crucial to an animal's survival. In primates, object recognition is thought to be accomplished primarily in the ventral visual pathway, a chain of ...

The human brain creates visual categories as a fundamental aspect of cognition. Infancy is a crucial period of life for such representations to be built up, but these are as yet unknown. A recent ...