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In an effort to decrypt some of the most intriguing secrets of the brain, researchers have found that visual recognition of objects is not a one-step process.

Research performed at the University of Pittsburgh suggests that visual recognition is a stepwise process in which different parts of the brain process information before an object is actually recognized.

Mark Wheeler, psychology professor at Pitt, led researchers from the Learning Research and Development Center in investigating the neural behavior that underlies object recognition. A paper on this research was published in the Oct. 31 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience.

Prior to the experiment, researchers knew that if an object is slowly revealed to a person, the person gathers...

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