Visual object categorization in infancy [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]

Humans make sense of the world by organizing things into categories. When and how does this process begin? We investigated whether real-world object categories that spontaneously emerge in the first months of life match categorical representations of objects in the human visual cortex. Using eye tracking, we measured the differential...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Biological Sciences Source Type: research