Perceptual Expertise. Bridging Brain and Behavior (Advances in Visual Cognition)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

• Selling point: a comprehensive survey of perceptual expertise in visual object recognition, and introduces a novel collaborative model, codified as the "Perceptual Expertise Network" (PEN).
• Selling point: This unique group effort is focused on delineating the domain-general principles of high-level visual learning that can account for how different object categories are processed and come to be associated with spatially localized activity in the primate brain.

This book presents a comprehensive survey of perceptual expertise in visual object recognition, and introduces a novel collaborative model, codified as the "Perceptual Expertise Network" (PEN). This unique group effort is focused on delineating the domain-general principles of high-level visual learning that can account for how different object categories are processed and come to be associated with spatially localized activity in the primate brain. PEN's approach brings together different traditions and techniques to 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 a variety of other questions, background information, and extant issues that have emerged from recent studies, making this book a complete overview on the topic.

Readership: Students and researchers in visual neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience and vision science

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Isabel Gauthier, Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Michael Tarr, Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, and Daniel Bub