Human object recognition is a classical topic both for philosophy and for the natural sciences. Ultimately, understanding of object recognition will be promoted by the cooperation of behavioral research, neurophysiology, and computation. This original book provides an excellent introduction to the issues that are involved. It contains chapters that address the ways in which humans and machines attend to, recognize, and act toward objects in the visual environment.

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An Editorial Overview.- An Editorial Overview.- 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.- 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?.- 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.