Whenever we look at something unfamiliar for the first time, it's only human nature that we look for the familiar in it. Even given the huge variety of what turns up in the animal kingdom, it's only ...

Seeing faces in common objects is not unusual. You might have seen the “man in the moon”, or seen faces in electrical outlets or sliced bell peppers. A new study from the National Institute of Mental ...

Some people amble about the world seeing things as they really are: A tree is a tree, a house is a house, a taxi is a taxi, a cigar is a cigar, and so on. But for the rest of us, the world is a matrix ...

A brain-damaged man who can’t remember faces has nosed into a scientific debate about how people learn to recognize other complex objects. Deaf users of sign language also have a hand in this dispute.

During natural viewing, certain objects (such as faces) require detailed central scrutiny to perform such subtle visual tasks as detecting facial expressions and eye gaze directions. Larger objects ...

As the brain attempts to organize the visual world, it hones in on familiar patterns -- like the shape of a human face -- and sometimes, it even concocts these patterns out of random noise. We spot ...

In adult humans and macaques, inferotemporal cortex (IT) is subdivided into functional domains that are selective for different image categories and are critical for high-level object recognition, but ...