Invariant visual object recognition and shape processing in rats

• Published in: Behavioural brain research Vol. 285; pp. 10 - 33
• Main Author: Zoccolan, Davide
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 15.05.2015; Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press
• Subjects: Animals; Invariant recognition; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Pattern vision; Photic Stimulation - methods; Rat; Rats - physiology; Rats - psychology; Recognition (Psychology) - physiology; Review; Rodent; Shape processing; Pattern vision; Shape processing; Invariant recognition; Rat; Rodent

•Rats are capable of invariant visual object recognition.•Rats spontaneously perceive different views of a visual object as similar to each other, that is as instances of the same object.•Rats are capable of a multifeatural, shape-based visual processing strategy.•Rats can learn complex, configural...