Cortical dynamics of attentive object recognition, scene understanding, and decision making.

This chapter discusses recent neural models that clarify how cortical dynamics carry out various higher level processes, such as attentive object learning and recognition, scene understanding, and decision making. These models contrib­ ute to research areas in which George Sperling has made important, indeed often seminal and pioneering, contributions, as noted subsequently. They are part of a coordinated research program aimed at developing an increasingly comprehensive model of visual intelligence.