Diagram of the ventral fronto-temporal network operations necessary for visual object memory. During perception (left), neurons in the anterior ventral temporal cortex (aVTC) are primarily activated ...

A new study questions the longstanding view that the visual system is divided into two pathways, one for object-recognition and the other for spatial tasks. Using computational vision models, ...

Have you ever wondered how your brain is able to associate other objects when looking at an object? For example, a person looking at a jar of peanut butter may mentally associate it with other objects ...

A new study suggests that unusual visual inspection of objects may precede the development of the social symptoms that are characteristic of autism syndrome disorder. Unusual visual inspection of ...

People with visual agnosia may be unable to recognize, draw, or recall how to use objects even with properly functioning eyesight. There are two sub-types of this condition. Less than 1% of people ...

Three decades of psychological research show that our visual and auditory senses work together. Famously, an experiment by Robert Sekuler (1997) found that the presence or absence of a clicking sound ...

Visual agnosia is a rare neurological condition in which people are unable to identify objects. People with visual agnosia can see an object, but the brain is unable to recognize it. It can occur due ...