Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? Ultra-Rapid Visual Categorisation of Natural and Artifactual Objects

By Rufin VanRullen, Simon J. Thorpe. Perception, 2001

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Reconciling Predictive Coding and Biased Competition Models of Cortical Function (2008, background): “It is also possible that, as has been observed psychophysically (Hochstein and Ahissar, 2002; Oliva and Torralba, 2006; VanRullen and Thorpe, 2001), a neural representation encoding the gist of a scene, or a previously learned object category, might be sufficiently strongly activated via feedforward”
Rate Coding Versus Temporal Order Coding: What the Retinal Ganglion Cells Tell the Visual Cortex (2001, methodology): “Monkeys can respond as early as 160 ms after stimulus presentation, and human subjects around 220 ms (Thorpe, Fize, & Marlot, 1996; Fabre-Thorpe, Richard, & Thorpe, 1998; VanRullen & Thorpe, 1999).”
Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex. (2003, positive): “First, the timing studies of Thorpe’s laboratory 14 clearly show that high-level visual judgments (e.g., whether an image contains an animal or not) could be computed within 150 ms. Thorpe’s work involves EEG recordings on humans, and he ﬁnds signiﬁcant changes in frontal lobe activity between two…”
Why visual attention and awareness are different. (2003, background): “Feedforward connections are apparently capable of generating sophisticated RF tuning properties and thus extracting highlevel information, which could lead to categorization [ 42 ] and selective behavioral responses.”
Prefrontal cortex activity during flexible categorization (2010, neutral): “Such interference has been observed when humans switch between different category tasks; images from one task are often miscategorized in the other (VanRullen and Thorpe, 2001).”
How long to get to the “gist” of real-world natural scenes? (2005, background): “This finding has been extended to other object categories such as means of transport (VanRullen & Thorpe, 2001), human faces and animal faces (Rousselet, MaceÂ, & Fabre-Thorpe, 2003), although food objects might take up to 30 ms longer (Delorme et al., 2000).”
Introduction to spiking neural networks: Information processing, learning and applications. (2011, background): “Thorpe and colleagues (Thorpe 1990, VanRullen and Thorpe 2001) proposed that the order in which each ganglion cell emits its first spike codes for the visual stimulus.”
Separate neural definitions of visual consciousness and visual attention; a case for phenomenal awareness (2004, background): “Feedforward connections are apparently capable of generating sophisticated RF tuning properties and thus extracting high-level information, which could lead to categorization (VanRullen & Thorpe, 2001) and selective behavioral responses.”
Object perception as Bayesian inference. (2004, background): “…of familiarity with particular views), and those which as a result of using view-invariant features together with \structural descriptions" of objects do not (Poggio & Edelman 1990, Ullman and Basri 1991, Tarr & B(cid:127)ultho(cid:11) 1995, Ullman 1996, Biederman 2000, Riesenhuber & Poggio 2002).”
The Time Course of Visual Processing: From Early Perception to Decision-Making (2001, background): “Behavioral results have been presented elsewhere ( VanRullen & Thorpe, in press ) and showed no difference in performance between the animal and vehicle categorization tasks.”