The perirhinal cortex (PRh) has a well-established role in object recognition memory. More recent studies suggest that PRh is also important for two-choice visual discrimination tasks. Specifically, it has been suggested that PRh contains conjunctive representations that help resolve feature ambiguity, which occurs when a task cannot easily be solved on the basis of features alone. However, no ...

What is the sequence of processing steps involved in visual object recognition? We varied the exposure duration of natural images and measured subjects' performance on three different tasks, each designed to tap a different candidate component process of object recognition. For each exposure duration, accuracy was lower and reaction time longer on a within-category identification task (e.g., di...

The mechanisms by which the brain integrates the unimodal sensory features of an object into a comprehensive multimodal object representation are poorly understood. We have recently developed a procedure for assessing crossmodal object recognition (CMOR) and object feature binding in rats using a modification of the spontaneous object recognition (SOR) paradigm. Here we show for the first time ...

Over last several decades, computer vision researchers have been devoted to findgood feature to solve different tasks, such as object recognition, object detection,object segmentation, activity recognition and so forth. Ideal features transform rawpixel intensity values to a representation in which these computer vision problemsare easier to solve. Recently, deep features from c...

A major goal of selective attention is to focus processing on relevant information to enable rapid and robust task performance. For the example of attentive visual object recognition, we investigate here the impact of top-down information onmulti-stage processing, instead of integrating generic visual feature extraction into object specific interpretation.We discriminate between generic and spe...

This study assesses the role of the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures in the coordination of spatial information across perspective change and, in particular, in visual perspective taking--namely the capacity to know what another individual is seeing on the visual scene. Fourteen patients with unilateral temporal lobe resection and 21 control subjects performed two tasks, called 'obje...

It can be very difficult to create software systems which capture the knowledge of an expert. It is an expensive and laborious process that often results in a suboptimal solution. This article proposes an approach which is different from ’manual’ knowledge construction. The described system is relevant and usable for the end user, from the beginning of its development. It is continuously being ...

In the last decays, manufacturing systems evolved to meet high product variety required by market. Different products can be manufactured in mixed-model assembly lines, with an increase process complexity. these production systems, flexibility is mainly provided operators final stages. Here, human errors could lead economic losses. A lack observed available research concerning a formal quantifi...