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Two neuropsychological approaches provide converging evidence for the neuronal basis of perceptual constancy of object recognition. Experimental studies of human patients with brain damage have found selective impairment of the ability to recognize particular categories of objects—faces, inanimate objects, bodily parts, and so forth, revealing mutually dissociable deficits. Visual cells in the monkey’s temporal cortex have been found to be selectively sensitive to faces, head orientation, and direction of eye gaze. Results suggest that recognition of one type of object proceeds by independent high-level analysis of several restricted views of a given object processed at an earlier postsensory stage of perceptual categorization.
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Gilinsky, A.S. How the brain recognizes meaningful objects. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 24, 138–140 (1986). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330527
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