Objects are the core meaningful elements in our visual environment. Classic theories of
object vision focus upon object recognition and are elegant and simple. Some of their …

Faces are among the most informative stimuli we ever perceive: Even a split-second glimpse
of a person's face tells us his identity, sex, mood, age, race, and direction of attention. The …

In order to better understand how the brain perceives faces, it is important to know what
objective drives learning in the ventral visual stream. To answer this question, we model …

The ability of primates to effortlessly recognize faces has been attributed to the existence of
specialized face areas. One such area, the macaque middle face patch, consists almost …

The rich and immediate perception of a familiar face, including its identity, expression and
even intent, is one of the most impressive shared faculties of human and non-human primate …

Neuroimaging research over the past decade has revealed a detailed picture of the
functional organization of the human brain. Here we focus on two fundamental questions …

Abstract Information in the cortex is thought to be represented by the joint activity of neurons.
Here we describe how fundamental questions about neural representation can be cast in …

This review focuses on low and intermediate stages of contour shape processing. It is split
into two main sections,'Contour Detection'and 'Shape Discrimination and Representation' …

Object perception seems effortless to us, but it depends on intensive neural processing
across multiple stages in ventral pathway visual cortex. Shape information at the retinal level …

We investigated the relationship between stimulus similarity for a set of parameterized
shapes and the spatial scale of neural representation within subregions of the lateral …