Osaka N., Rentschler I., Biederman I. (eds.) Object Recognition, Attention, and Action

Springer, 2007. — 252 p.Visual object recognition has been for years one of the most intensively studied subjects in cognitive science. It is only recently, however, that scientists have been able to investigate the neuronal processes possibly underlying this basic cognitive ability. Recent progress in cognitive/computational neuroscience and visual psychophysics has allowed further understanding of the neuronal and behavioral correlates associated with the different forms of object recognition.
This volume provides a comprehensive view of the neuronal and behavioral bases of object recognition, taking as its thesis that object recognition involves both active attention and coordinated action to adapt to the world. To fully understand human object recognition, therefore, we are required to examine its concept from the multidisciplinary point of view involving psychophysical research as well as cognitive and computational neuroscience of attentional mechanisms and action.
Leading researchers on object recognition believe that a firmer understanding of this topic is now within our reach because of new evidence from cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, and neuropsychology. Accordingly, the neuronal system supporting object recognition seems to be in attentional networks connecting the visual brain with temporo-parietal cortex and even the prefrontal cortex. Furthermore, the coordination across various brain areas probably serves the purpose of binding purposeful action to the recognition task at hand. The present volume is to provide a forum for systematic comparison of present models and theories of object recognition in the brain. Thus, it aims at encouraging communication between students and researchers from different subdisciplines of cognitive science by focusing on explicit, detailed comparisons of current major approaches to object recognition theory and modeling. The domains in which the present contributors have examined the role of the neuronal basis of object recognition include higher brain mechanisms, attention, perception, working memory, binding in the cerebral cortex, neural networks, and voluntary action.
As the book covers a wide range of different theoretical perspectives and interdisciplinary views, it will be of interest also to researchers and students in cognitive science/psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, neurobiology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of the mind.Part I: Object Recognition
Occlusion Awaits Disclosure
Functional MRI Evidence for Neural Plasticity at Early Stages of Visual Processing in Humans
Pattern Recognition in Direct and Indirect View
Part-Based Strategies for Visual Categorisation and Object Recognition
Recent Psychophysical and Neural Research in Shape Recognition
Object Recognition in Humans and Machines
Prior Knowledge and Learning in 3D Object Recognition
Neural Representation of Faces in Human Visual Cortex: the Roles of Attention, Emotion, and Viewpoint
Part II: Attention
Object Recognition: Attention and Dual Routes
Interactions Between Shape Perception and Egocentric Localization
Feature Binding in Visual Working Memory
Biased Competition and Cooperation: A Mechanism of Mammalian Visual Recognition?
Part III: Action
Influence of Visual Motion on Object Localisation in Perception and Action
Neural Substrates of Action Imitation Studied by fMRI
Two Types of Anticipatory-Timing Mechanisms in Synchronization Tapping