title: Visual cognition: rats compare shapes among the crowd.
abstract: Rats can discriminate simple shapes visually, even if they are moved around, made smaller, or partially covered up; the strategy they use may help shed light on human brain mechanisms for discriminating complex features, such as faces.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, Neurobiology Section in the Division of Biology and the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cruz-Martín
authors.forename: Andrew D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Huberman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*