Evidence for a third visual pathway specialized for social perception

D Pitcher, LG Ungerleider - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Existing models propose that primate visual cortex is divided into two functionally distinct
pathways. The ventral pathway computes the identity of an object; the dorsal pathway …

Face recognition by humans and machines: three fundamental advances from deep learning

AJ O'Toole, CD Castillo - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Deep learning models currently achieve human levels of performance on real-world face
recognition tasks. We review scientific progress in understanding human face processing …

A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence

EJ Allen, G St-Yves, Y Wu, JL Breedlove… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Extensive sampling of neural activity during rich cognitive phenomena is critical for robust
understanding of brain function. Here we present the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD), in …

The functional neuroanatomy of human face perception

K Grill-Spector, KS Weiner, K Kay… - Annual review of vision …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Face perception is critical for normal social functioning and is mediated by a network of
regions in the ventral visual stream. In this review, we describe recent neuroimaging findings …

Computational neuroimaging and population receptive fields

BA Wandell, J Winawer - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) noninvasively measures human brain
activity at millimeter resolution. Scientists use different approaches to take advantage of the …

Face space representations in deep convolutional neural networks

AJ O'Toole, CD Castillo, CJ Parde, MQ Hill… - Trends in cognitive …, 2018 - cell.com
Inspired by the primate visual system, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have
made impressive progress on the complex problem of recognizing faces across variations of …

Object vision in a structured world

D Kaiser, GL Quek, RM Cichy, MV Peelen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
In natural vision, objects appear at typical locations, both with respect to visual space (eg, an
airplane in the upper part of a scene) and other objects (eg, a lamp above a table). Recent …

Visuospatial coding as ubiquitous scaffolding for human cognition

IIA Groen, TM Dekker, T Knapen, EH Silson - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
For more than 100 years we have known that the visual field is mapped onto the surface of
visual cortex, imposing an inherently spatial reference frame on visual information …

Cortical magnification in human visual cortex parallels task performance around the visual field

NC Benson, ER Kupers, A Barbot, M Carrasco… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Human vision has striking radial asymmetries, with performance on many tasks varying
sharply with stimulus polar angle. Performance is generally better on the horizontal than …

Temporal processing capacity in high-level visual cortex is domain specific

A Stigliani, KS Weiner, K Grill-Spector - Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Prevailing hierarchical models propose that temporal processing capacity—the amount of
information that a brain region processes in a unit time—decreases at higher stages in the …