Summarizing and critically discussing the state of the art of neuroscience research on a given topic can play an important role to inspire further studies, while providing a solid foundation for such future investigations. Below, we report a list of reviews, opinion papers, editorials and book chapters focusing on object vision in primates (DiCarlo et al., 2012) and rats (Zoccolan, 2015; Zoccolan and Di Filippo, 2018), as well as on more general topics, such as unsupervised learning in the visual system and artificial neural networks (Matteucci et al, 2024), sensory adaptation (Adibi et al., 2021) and the knowledge we can gain from studying the visual systems of non-primate species (Zoccolan et al., 2015).