Disproportionate inversion decrements for recognizing faces and other homogeneous
stimuli are often interpreted as evidence that experts use relational features to recognize …

Two major functions of the visual system are discussed and contrasted. One function of
vision is the creation of an internal model or percept of the external world. Most research in …

This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a
twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image …

" Don Hoffman... combines a deep understanding of the logic of perception, a gift for
explaining it with simple displays that anyone can-quite literally-see, and a refreshing sense …

Background: The inferior temporal cortex (IT) of the monkey has long been known to play an
essential role in visual object recognition. Damage to this area results in severe deficits in …

How do we recognize objects despite differences in their retinal projections when they are
seen at different orientations? Marr and Nishihara (1978) proposed that shapes are …

Given a single view of an object, humans can readily recognize that object from other views
that preserve the parts in the original view. Empirical evidence suggests that this capacity …

THE visual recognition of three-dimensional (3-D) objects on the basis of their shape poses
at least two difficult problems. First, there is the problem of variable illumination, which can …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 20 (1) of Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (see record 2008-10476 …

Does the human brain represent objects for recognition by storing a series of two-
dimensional snapshots, or are the object models, in some sense, three-dimensional analogs …