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 …

Prior work has identified cortical regions selectively responsive to specific categories of
visual stimuli. However, this hypothesis-driven work cannot reveal how prominent these …

Color-biased regions have been found between face-and place-selective areas in the
ventral visual pathway. To investigate the function of the color-biased regions in a pathway …

We hypothesize that high-level visual representations contain more than the representation
of individual categories: they represent complex semantic information inherent in scenes …

Abstract Representations of visual and semantic information can overlap in human visual
cortex, with the same neural populations exhibiting sensitivity to low-level features …

Investigation of the visual system has mainly relied on a-priori hypotheses to restrict
experimental stimuli or models used to analyze experimental data. Hypotheses are an …

Color is considered important in food perception, but its role in food-specific visual
mechanisms is unclear. We explore this question in North American adults. We build on …

In visual cortex, anatomically distinct patches respond to distinct categories, such as faces or
text. New research confirms this parcellation using unsupervised analysis of functional …

This thesis presents a novel data-driven approach for identifying categoryselective regions
in the human brain that are consistent across multiple participants. By leveraging a massive …