The cognitive concept of representation plays a key role in theories of brain information
processing. However, linking neuronal activity to representational content and cognitive …

Objects are the core meaningful elements in our visual environment. Classic theories of
object vision focus upon object recognition and are elegant and simple. Some of their …

Neuronal population codes are increasingly being investigated with multivariate pattern-
information analyses. A key challenge is to use measured brain-activity patterns to test …

Mounting evidence suggests that 'core object recognition,'the ability to rapidly recognize
objects despite substantial appearance variation, is solved in the brain via a cascade of …

Inferior temporal cortex (IT) is a key part of the ventral visual pathway implicated in object,
face, and scene perception. But how does IT work? Here, I describe an organizational …

A fundamental challenge for systems neuroscience is to quantitatively relate its three major
branches of research: brain-activity measurement, behavioral measurement, and …

The study of decision making spans such varied fields as neuroscience, psychology,
economics, statistics, political science, and computer science. Despite this diversity of …

Inferior temporal (IT) object representations have been intensively studied in monkeys and
humans, but representations of the same particular objects have never been compared …

Cortical analysis related to visual object recognition is traditionally thought to propagate
serially along a bottom-up hierarchy of ventral areas. Recent proposals gradually promote …

In order to better understand how the brain perceives faces, it is important to know what
objective drives learning in the ventral visual stream. To answer this question, we model …