The human brain creates visual categories as a fundamental aspect of cognition. Infancy is a crucial period of life for such representations to be built up, but these are as yet unknown. A recent ...

During active categorization, the neural representation of mean motion direction in V1 became systematically biased toward the center of the learned category. This suggests that even early visual ...

Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represent them in our thoughts and perceptions. What they discovered might change our view of memory. We ...

The findings, published in eLife, could help shed light on the intricate workings of how the brain processes visual information and open new avenues for exploring how different species perceive the ...

Transnational contexts of and perspectives on studying visual representations of Native Americans : an introduction / Karsten Fritz -- Indigenous skins : Indian costumes at the Court of Wü̈rttemberg / ...