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Just as a diverse ecosystem thrives with a variety of plants and animals, cognitive science can flourish by embracing neurodiversity. While some forms of cognitive diversity have been recognized and studied, others like autism and ADHD have often been viewed as deficits. However, the neurodiversity paradigm challenges this perspective, highlighting that these experiences are simply […]
Did you know that our brains can perceive the shape of objects without passing through the dorsal visual stream? Scientists Ayzenberg and Behrmann point out that the global shape of objects can be computed directly in the ventral visual stream, where it contributes to object identification. They use a fascinating analogy of ancient cave paintings […]
Just like a detective piecing together clues to solve a crime, scientists are unraveling the mystery of object recognition. Global shape, which describes an object’s form based on the arrangement of its features, is not represented in the ventral visual pathway. Instead, this pathway focuses on the appearance of local features. However, recent findings suggest […]
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