Farzad Rostami

The paper shows that animacy categorization persists in humans and DNNs even with severely impoverished visual stimuli, indicating early and robust neural representation of animacy.

The paper uses EEG to show that humans accurately distinguish animate from inanimate objects, even when objects resemble animals, and that this ability is not affected by the degree of animal-like appearance.

This study examines how frontal lobe damage affects risky decision-making in self vs other contexts, finding altered utility and probability processing in patients.