**Section 1**

**Cognition, and Biologically-Inspired Systems** 

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**Neural Basis of Object Recognition** 

*2Laboratory for Preclinical Researches in Neuropharmacology and Neurodegenerative* 

Interaction between environment and human beings, as well as each living organism, is essential for survival. Indeed, in nature every interaction among different living species is not possible without the integrity of central nervous system (CNS), which generates brain activity such as arousal, attention, learning and memory. Moreover, face perception and recognition of face are fundamental brain processes for human relationship. The ability to hold objects in memory is essential to intelligent behavior, but its neural basis still remains

Many studies running in the last decades in neuroscience researches have contributed to clarify the intricate puzzle about brain recognizes objects [Ungerleider and Haxby, 1994].

Now, questioning is: "How does brain recognize? What is the neural basis of objects

Here, we briefly review neuroanatomical substrates and neurophysiological correlates which could explain the neural basis of object recognition; we also describe our contribution

Starting from these essential questions, much of the epistemological debate has focused on analyzing the neurophilosophical and neuropsychological nature of knowledge in living

Thinking about neural basis of recognition memory it means to imagine how biological systems integrate functional information that provide reference knowledge for successive

What is knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? How do we know what we know?

in this field of neuroscience reporting own pharmacological data.

species and how it relates to connected neurobiological aspects.

**2. Neurophysiopathology of attention, learning and memory** 

**1. Introduction** 

poorly understood.

recognition?".

recognition.

Corresponding Author

 \* *1Institute for Neurological Sciences, Pharmacological Section,* 

R. Marra1, D. Rotiroti2 and V. Rispoli2,\*

*Diseases, Department of Pharmacological Sciences,* 

*National Council of Researches, Catanzaro,* 

*University Magna Græcia of Catanzaro,* 
