Animal/Nonanimal Categories (IMAGE)

McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Animal/Nonanimal Categories

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Both humans and a computer model developed in Poggio's lab correctly categorize these images when they are presented for just 50 milliseconds followed by a mask that shuts down cognitive feedback in the human subjects. These results support the view that rapid or immediate object recognition occurs in one feed-forward sweep through the ventral stream of the visual cortex.

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Images courtesy Thomas Serre, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

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