Visual objects in the real world are seen in contextual scenes. These contexts are usually coherent in terms of their physical and semantic content, and they usually occur in typical configurations.

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New research reveals that numbers in our visual field can subtly distort how we judge spatial positions, showing that perception is shaped by both numerical magnitude and object-based processing.

The fundamental insight that the visual hierarchy is divided into two pathways, ventral and dorsal 1, has guided research on visual cortex for decades and has also influenced ideas about organization ...

While previous studies of the brain suggest that processing of objects and places occurs in very different locations, a research team has now found that they are closely related, and in fact, a major ...