The brain has evolved to transform sensory information in the environment into neural
representations that can be used for perception and action. Higher-order sensory cortical …

Birds are excellent model organisms to study perceptual categorization and concept
formation. The renewed focus on avian neuroscience has sparked an explosion of new data …

Cortical representations of brief, static stimuli become more invariant to identity-preserving
transformations along the ventral stream. Likewise, increased invariance along the visual …

How the brain fluidly orchestrates visual behavior is a central question in cognitive
neuroscience. Researchers studying neural responses in humans and nonhuman primates …

In rodents, the progression of extrastriate areas located laterally to primary visual cortex (V1)
has been assigned to a putative object-processing pathway (homologous to the primate …

From an ecological point of view, it is generally suggested that the main goal of vision in rats
and mice is navigation and (aerial) predator evasion [1–3]. The latter requires fast and …

Discriminating between object categories (eg, conspecifics, food, potential predators) is a
critical function of the primate and bird visual systems. We examined whether a similar …

Visual object recognition has been extensively studied in both neuroscience and computer
vision. Recently, the most popular class of artificial systems for this task, deep convolutional …

A prominent theory of category learning, COVIS, posits that new categories are learned with
either a declarative or procedural system, depending on the task. The declarative system …

Despite their growing popularity as models of visual functions, it remains unclear whether
rodents are capable of deploying advanced shape-processing strategies when engaged in …