In recent years, a growing body of research has addressed the nature and mechanism of
material perception. Material perception entails perceiving and recognizing a material …

In 1998 several groups reported the feasibility of fMRI experiments in monkeys, with the goal
to bridge the gap between invasive nonhuman primate studies and human functional …

To engage with the world—to understand the scene in front of us, plan actions, and predict
what will happen next—we must have an intuitive grasp of the world's physical structure and …

Our daily visual experiences are inevitably linked to recognizing the rich variety of textures.
However, how the brain encodes and differentiates a plethora of natural textures remains …

Humans implicitly rely on the properties of materials to guide our interactions. Grasping
smooth materials, for example, requires more care than rough ones. We may even visually …

Skilled manipulation requires the ability to predict the weights of viewed objects based on
learned associations linking object weight to object visual appearance [1–5]. However, the …

The lateral geniculate nucleus is thought to represent color using two populations of cone-
opponent neurons [L vs M; S vs (L+ M)], which establish the cardinal directions in color …

According to the dual-stream theory, the processing of visual information is divided into a
ventral pathway mediating object recognition, and a dorsal pathway supporting visuomotor …

Complex shape and texture representations are known to be constructed from V1 along the
ventral visual pathway through areas V2 and V4, but the underlying mechanism remains …

Interest in the perception of the material of objects has been growing. While material
perception is a critical ability for animals to properly regulate behavioral interactions with …