Human visual object recognition is typically rapid and seemingly effortless, as well as largely
independent of viewpoint and object orientation. Until very recently, animate visual systems …

Theories of object recognition agree that shape is of primordial importance, but there is no
consensus about how shape might be represented, and so far attempts to implement a …

Studies in biological vision have always been a great source of inspiration for design of
computer vision algorithms. In the past, several successful methods were designed with …

The occurrence of implicit processing of visual stimuli during inattentional blindness is still a
matter of debate. To assess the evidence available in this debate, we conducted a …

A stable self-representation has an intrinsically beneficial connotation for information
processing: it allows the individual to flexibly adapt to different contexts, while prioritizing …

Perceptual organization concerns the organization of people's perception into meaningful,
structured entities—often wholes containing parts, with specific interrelationships among the …

Current cognitive theories are cast in terms of information-processing mechanisms that use
mental representations,,–. For example, people use their mental representations to identify …

Human babies respond preferentially to faces or face-like images. It has been proposed that
an innate and rapid face detection system is present at birth before the cortical visual …

The structure of the physical world projects images onto our eyes. However, those images
are often poorly representative of environmental structure: well-defined boundaries within …

The organization of semantic information in the brain has been mainly explored through
category-based models, on the assumption that categories broadly reflect the organization …