Visual system

Neuroscience

Perception

Visual cortex

Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition

Biology

Cognitive psychology

Artificial intelligence

Psychology

Visual perception

Primate

Stimulus (psychology)

Visual Objects

Computer science

Object (grammar)

Communication

Neuroreport

THE human visual system can learn to recognize visual stimuli rapidly. For example, humans can accurately reconstruct meaningful objects out of fragmentary evidence, once they have seen the same object in its unambiguous form. The anterior temporal cortical areas of macaques contain some neurones with invariant visual responses which appear to provide a representation of complex patterns and objects, such as faces. Remarkably, these neurones show an enhancement of response after brief (e.g. 5 s) exposure to the unambiguous stimulus, an effect that appears to reflect the neural basis of the rapid perceptual learning seen in humans.

Rapid visual learning in neurones of the primate temporal visual cortex