May 2, 2009 | |
1 hours 08 minutes | |
Irving Biederman | |
Dr. Irving Biederman is the Harold W. Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, where he is a member of the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, and Neuroscience and Director of the Image Understanding Laboratory.
"The Neural Basis of (Object) Shape Recognition"
Abstract: About twenty years ago, a proposal was advanced that a considerable range of behavioral phenomena associate with human object recognition can be understood in terms of a representation positing an arrangement of simple part primitives distinguished by viewpoint invariant properties (= geons). Recent research on optical imaging as well as single unit activity of cells in macaque IT and behavioral fMRI studies in humans provide a surprisingly strong neural confirmation of this proposal.