We review the progress made in the field of object recognition over the past two decades. Structural-description models, making their appearance in the early 1980s, inspired a wealth of empirical research. Moving to the 1990s, psychophysical evidence for view-based accounts of recognition challenged some of the fundamental assumptions of structural-description theories. The 1990s also saw increased interest in the neurophysiological study of high-level visual cortex, the results of which provide some constraints on how objects may be represented. By 2000, neuroimaging arose as a viable means for connecting neurons to behavior. One of the most striking fMRI results has been category selectivity, which provided further constraints for models of object recognition. Despite this progress, the field is still faced with the challenge of developing a comprehensive theory that integrates this ever-increasing body of results and explains how we perceive and recognize objects.

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视觉对象识别：我们现在比20年前了解更多吗？

我们回顾了过去二十年来在物体识别领域取得的进展。结构描述模型在1980年代初问世，激发了大量的经验研究。进入1990年代，基于观点的认知的心理物理学证据对结构描述理论的一些基本假设提出了挑战。1990年代，高级视觉皮层的神经生理学研究也引起了越来越多的兴趣，其结果为如何表示对象提供了一些限制。到2000年，神经影像学成为将神经元与行为联系起来的可行手段。功能磁共振成像最引人注目的结果之一是类别选择性，这为对象识别模型提供了进一步的限制。尽管取得了这一进展，