Two relatively independent areas of visual cognition research examine important aspects of visual object understanding: Object Recognition and Perceptual Categorization. These areas have focused on ...

On the whole, people recognize objects best when they see the objects from a familiar view and worse when they see the objects from views that were previously occluded from sight. Unexpectedly, we ...

A new breakthrough shows how robots can now integrate both sight and touch to handle objects with greater accuracy, similar to humans.

A Dartmouth research group has found a new and unexpected way our attention can be grabbed – by grabbable objects. Their study, which appears in the March 17 advance online issue of Nature ...

We report a novel visual phenomenon called the rejuvenation effect. It causes an “old” object that has been on view for some time to acquire the properties of a suddenly appearing new object. In each ...