Faces are an important class of visual stimuli, and are thought to be processed differently from objects by the human visual system. Going beyond the false dichotomy of same versus different processing, it is more important ...

This thesis proposes a miethodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of ...

Visual object recognition (categorization and identification) is one of the most fundamental cognitive functions for our survival. Our visual system has the remarkable ability to convey to us visual object and category ...

The field of neuroscience has the potential to address profound questions including explaining how neural activity enables complex behaviors and conscious experience. However, currently the field is a long way from ...

Chronic stress has been linked to variation in gene regulation in the hippocampus (HIP) among other areas. These lead to cytoskeletal and volumetric rearrangements in various nuclei of the central nervous system and are ...

In this thesis, I investigate how scenes are represented by the human visual system and how observers use visual information to reorient themselves within a space. Scenes, like objects, are three-dimensional spaces that ...

Interpreting the results of visual object perception experiments is too often ill-posed due to the disparate and sparse choice of stimuli. To address this problem, we have developed a flexible new technique called Random ...

Human language is notable for its expressivity; syntax is powerful and allows for potentially unlimited new sentences. But even simple transitive sentences like "I broke the lamp" provide a sophisticated tool for communication, ...