Despite tremendous variation in the appearance of visual objects, primates can recognize a
multitude of objects, each in a fraction of a second, with no apparent effort. However, the …

The extrastriate cortex of primates encompasses a substantial portion of the cerebral cortex
and is devoted to the higher order processing of visual signals and their dispatch to other …

Our mental representation of object categories is hierarchically organized, and our rapid and
seemingly effortless categorization ability is crucial for our daily behavior. Here, we examine …

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 …

Highlights•Object representation is intermediate between parts-based and holistic
descriptions.•Intrinsic dimensionality of object representations is approximately one …

The identity of an object is not only specified by its parts but also by the relations among the
parts. Rearranging parts can produce a completely different object, in the same manner as …

Whether and how the parts of a visual object are grouped together to form an integrated
(“holistic”) representation is a central question in cognitive neuroscience. Although the face …

There are two dominant models for the functional organization of brain regions underlying
object recognition. One model postulates category-specific modules while the other …

In the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), efforts to achieve human-like behavior have taken
very different paths through time. Cognitive Architectures (CAs) differentiate from traditional …

In our previous study (Han & Sereno, 2022a), we found that two artificial cortical visual
pathways trained for either identity or space actively retain information about both identity …