Our novel observations therefore have major implications for our understanding of reading, object recognition, and language.
Like the impressive Makerbot Digitizer the Matter and Form "reads" objects with lasers and then creates a three dimensional point cloud.
A recent study examined his low-level visual functions and high-level visual performance, including reading, object, and face recognition (Gilaie-Dotan et al., 2009).
From this second-level analysis, we generated statistical parametric maps of the t statistic at each voxel SPM{ t}, which characterized differences in activation for any condition (i.e., word reading, object naming, and saying 123 to unfamiliar symbols and nonobjects) relative to fixation.
In addition to semantic decisions on written words, our paradigm also involved semantic decisions on photographs of objects, perceptual decisions on unfamiliar letters and non-objects, reading aloud and object naming (Fig. 1).
Every element or compound has its own unique spectroscopic signature, and by reading an object's full spectral "fingerprint", astronomers can determine what it is made of.
Critically, this observation was derived from a comparison of reading to object naming and other control tasks.
The alternative hypothesis [Price and Devlin, 2004; Price and Friston, 2005] is that the left OT region of interest (ROI) plays the same functional role during reading and object naming.
The speech production conditions involved naming pictures of familiar objects, reading aloud written names of familiar objects and saying "1, 2, 3" to meaningless and unfamiliar Greek strings and nonobjects.
To read such objects only formally, of course, would be to miss a great deal.
