American Psychological Society - Right before Your Eyes: Visual Recognition Begins with Categorization

American Psychological Society - Right before Your Eyes: Visual Recognition Begins with Categorization: "Psychologists who study how we perceive images used to think that, before the process of object recognition and categorization could begin, the brain must first separate the figure in the image�such as a tree, or a piece of fruit�from its background. However, new research shows we actually categorize objects before we identify them. It means that, by the time your brain even realizes you are looking at something, you already know what that thing is."