The cortical visual system is almost universally thought to be segregated into two
anatomically and functionally distinct pathways: a ventral occipitotemporal pathway that …

Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful …

Symmetry is an important and prominent feature of the visual world. It has been studied as a
basis for image segmentation and perceptual organization, but it also plays a role in higher …

This review of symmetry perception has six parts. Psychophysical studies have investigated
symmetry perception for over 100 years (part 1). Neuroscientific studies on symmetry …

Rapidly grouping local elements into an organized object (ie, perceptual integration) is a
fundamental yet challenging task, especially in noisy contexts. Previous studies demonstrate …

Semantic knowledge includes understanding of objects and their features and also
understanding of the characteristics of events. The hub-and-spoke theory holds that these …

The ventral or form vision hierarchy comprises a sequence of cortical areas in which
successively more complex visual attributes are extracted, beginning with contour …

The human visual system is extremely sensitive to the presence of bilateral (mirror)
symmetry. In this review, I summarise the results of recent work investigating the neural …

Although object-related areas were discovered in human parietal cortex a decade ago,
surprisingly little is known about the nature and purpose of these representations, and how …

Symmetry is a highly salient feature in the visual world, abundant in both man-made and
natural objects. In particular, humans find reflectional symmetry most salient …