The human brain creates visual categories as a fundamental aspect of cognition. Infancy is a crucial period of life for such representations to be built up, but these are as yet unknown. A recent ...

As human beings, it’s natural to be strongly affected by the visual, and across professions, people collect, work with, and share all kinds of visual data. Because we are all biased—based on our life ...

Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represent them in our thoughts and perceptions. What they discovered might change our view of memory. We ...