“Neural coding” is a popular metaphor in neuroscience, where objective properties of the
world are communicated to the brain in the form of spikes. Here I argue that this metaphor is …

The majority of the research related to visual recognition has so far focused on bottom-up
analysis, where the input is processed in a cascade of cortical regions that analyze …

It remains unclear how the brain represents external objective sensory events alongside our
internal subjective impressions of them—affect. Representational mapping of population …

During the 1990s and early 2000s, cognitive neuroscience investigations of human category
learning focused on the primary goal of showing that humans have multiple category …

Various forms of category-specificity have been described at both the cognitive and neural
levels, inviting the inference that different semantic domains are processed by distinct …

Shape is represented in the visual system by patterns of activity across populations of
neurons. We studied the population code for shape in area V4 of macaque monkeys, which …

Previous studies have suggested that both the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and inferior temporal
cortex (ITC) are involved in high-level visual processing and categorization, but their …

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 …

Efficient recognition of odorous objects universally shapes animal behavior and is crucial for
survival. To distinguish kin from nonkin, mate from nonmate and food from nonfood …

Object perception depends on shape processing in the ventral visual pathway, which in
monkeys culminates in inferotemporal cortex (IT). Here we provide a description of …