A visual pathway in the brain may do more than recognize objects

A visual pathway in the brain may do more than recognize objects

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that one of these pathways, the ventral visual stream, is responsible for recognizing objects, and that it might have been optimized by evolution to do just that.

Brain's "ventral stream" might be more versatile than previously thought

New research using computational vision models suggests the brain’s “ventral stream” might be more versatile than previously thought.