edited by Isabel Gauthier, Michael J. Tarr, and Daniel Bub.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
xx, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations (some color) ;
25 cm.
Oxford series in visual cognition
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How faces became special / Cindy M. Bukach and Jessie J. Peissig -- Objects of expertise / David L. Sheinberg and Michael J. Tarr -- Development of expertise in face recognition / Catherine J. Mondloch, Richard Le Grand, and Daphne Maurer -- Degrees of expertise / Lisa S. Scott, James W. Tanaka, and Tim Curran -- Face processing in autism : insights from the perceptual expertise framework / Kim M. Curby [and others] -- Congenital and acquired prosopagnosia : flip sides of the same coin? / Marlene Behrmann [and others] -- Modeling perceptual expertise / Thomas J. Palmeri and Garrison W. Cottrell -- Competition between face and nonface domains of expertise / Kim M. Curby and Bruno Rossion -- The locus of holistic processing / Olivia S. Cheung and Isabel Gauthier -- The case for letter expertise / Karin H. James, Alan C.-N. Wong, and Gael Jobard -- Perceptual and conceptual interactions in object recognition and expertise / Thomas W. James and George S. Cree -- Lessons from neuropsychology / Daniel Bub.
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This book explores visual object recognition and introduces a collaborative model, codified as the "Perceptual Expertise Network" (PEN). It focuses on delineating the principles of high-level visual learning that can account for how different object categories are processed and associated with spatially localized activity in the primate brain. It address questions such as how expertise develops, whether there are different kinds of experts, whether some disorders such as autism or prosopagnosia can be understood as a lack or loss of expertise, and how conceptual and perceptual information interact when experts recognize and categorize objects. The research and results that have been generated by these questions are presented here, along with other questions, background information, and extant issues that have emerged from recent studies.