Dynamics of low-pass-filtered object categories: A decoding approach to ERP recordings

•Behavioral performances decrease for furniture in low spatial frequency (LSF) only.•Classifier based on brain response is able to disentangle item’s category.•Living/non-living item classification is possible as early as 130 ms.•Filtering delays by 30 ms the living/non-living item classification.•Classification for living items is based on LSF information.