The Vanderbilt Expertise Test reveals domain-general and domain-specific sex effects in object recognition.

ABSTRACT: Individual differences in face recognition are often contrasted with differences in object recognition using a single object category. Likewise, individual differences in perceptual expertise for a given object domain have typically been measured relative to only a single category baseline. In Experiment 1, we present a new test of object recognition, the Vanderbilt Expertise Test (VET), which is comparable in methods to the Cambridge Face Memory Task (CFMT) but uses eight different object categories. Principal component analysis reveals that the underlying structure of the VET can be largely explained by two independent factors, which demonstrate good reliability and capture interesting sex differences inherent in the VET structure. In Experiment 2, we show how the VET can be used to sepa

SUBMITTER: McGugin RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3513270 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature