We here extend and complement our earlier time-based, magneto-encephalographic
(MEG), study of the processing of forms by the visual brain (Shigihara and Zeki,) with a …

We used easily distinguishable stimuli of faces and houses constituted from straight lines,
with the aim of learning whether they activate V1 on the one hand, and the specialized areas …

We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to determine whether increasingly complex
forms constituted from the same elements (lines) activate visual cortex with the same or …

Cross-modal correspondence has been consistently evidenced between shapes and other
sensory attributes. Especially, the curvature of shapes may arouse the affective account …

It is generally supposed that there is a single, hierarchically organized pathway dedicated to
form processing, in which complex forms are elaborated from simpler ones, beginning with …

There have been several studies supporting the notion of a ventral-dorsal distinction in the
primate cortex for visual object processing, whereby the ventral stream specializes in object …

We studied the brain activation patterns in two visual image processing tasks requiring
judgements on object construction (FIT task) or object sameness (SAME task). Eight right …

Extensive psychophysical and computational work proposes that the perception of coherent
and meaningful structures in natural images relies on neural processes that convert …

Many Gestalt phenomena have been described in terms of perception of a whole being not
equal to the sum of its parts. It is unclear how these phenomena emerge in the brain. We …

Research on the modularity of perceptual and cognitive processes has often pointed to a
ventral-dorsal distinction in cortical pathways that depend upon the nature of the stimuli and …