Are all types of expertise created equal? Car experts use different spatial frequency scales for subordinate categorization of cars and faces.

A much-debated question in object recognition is whether expertise for faces and expertise for non-face objects utilize common perceptual information. We investigated this issue by assessing the diagnostic information required for different types of expertise. Specifically, we asked whether face cat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Assaf Harel, Shlomo Bentin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3691146?pdf=render