The ventral visual stream is conceived as a pathway for object recognition. However, we
also recognize the actions an object can be involved in. Here, we show that action …

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 …

Traditionally, research on vision focused on its role in perception and our cognitive life.
Except for the study of eye movements, which have been regarded as an information …

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 …

The existence of color-processing regions in the human ventral visual pathway (VVP) has
long been known from patient and imaging studies, but their location in the cortex relative to …

Neurons in macaque ventral premotor cortex and inferior parietal lobe discharge during both
the observation and the execution of motor acts. It has been claimed that these so-called …

The visual properties of an object provide many cues as to the tensile strength, compliance,
and density of the material from which it is made. However, it is not well understood how …

Previous neuroimaging research suggests that although object shape is analyzed in the
lateral occipital cortex, surface properties of objects, such as color and texture, are dealt with …

The object perception capabilities of humans are impressive, and this becomes even more
evident when trying to develop solutions with a similar proficiency in autonomous robots …

Visual and haptic unisensory object processing show many similarities in terms of
categorization, recognition, and representation. In this review, we discuss how these …