Human Visual Perception

Visual Perception in the Human Brain: How the Brain Perceives and Understands Real-World Scenes

How humans perceive and understand real-world scenes is a long-standing question in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Initially, it was thought that scenes are constructed and represented by their component objects. An …

Direct comparison of category and spatial selectivity in human occipitotemporal cortex

Human visual cortex is organised broadly according to two major principles: retinotopy (the spatial mapping of the retina in cortex) and category-selectivity (preferential responses to specific categories of stimuli). Historically, these principles …