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 …

A quarter-century ago visual neuroscientists had little information about the number and
organization of retinotopic maps in human visual cortex. The advent of functional magnetic …

Mounting evidence suggests that 'core object recognition,'the ability to rapidly recognize
objects despite substantial appearance variation, is solved in the brain via a cascade of …

The appearance of faces can be strongly affected by the characteristics of faces viewed
previously. These perceptual after-effects reflect processes of sensory adaptation that are …

Visual coding is a highly dynamic process and continuously adapting to the current viewing
context. The perceptual changes that result from adaptation to recently viewed stimuli …

How is what you see influenced by what you saw? The visual system may use recent
perception to inform responses to current stimuli. This can cause the perception of current …

Neurons that respond more to images of faces over nonface objects were identified in the
inferior temporal (IT) cortex of primates three decades ago. Although it is hypothesized that …

It is widely assumed that high-level visual object representations are position-independent
(or invariant). While there is sensitivity to position in high-level object-selective cortex …

Cortical representations of brief, static stimuli become more invariant to identity-preserving
transformations along the ventral stream. Likewise, increased invariance along the visual …

The anterior inferotemporal cortex (IT) is the highest stage along the hierarchy of visual
areas that, in primates, processes visual objects. Although several lines of evidence suggest …