The temporal advantage for individuating objects of expertise: perceptual expertise is an early riser.

ABSTRACT: The identification of faces has a temporal advantage over that of other object categories. The orientation-specific nature of this advantage suggests that it stems from our extensive experience and resulting expertise with upright faces. While experts can identify objects faster than novices, it is unclear exactly how the temporal dynamics of identification are changed by expertise and whether the nature of this temporal advantage is similar for face and non-face objects of expertise. Here, we titrated encoding time using a backward-masking paradigm with variable stimulus-mask onset-asynchronies and mapped the resulting effect on recognition for upright and inverted faces (Experiment 1) and for cars among car experts and car novices (Experiment 2). Performance for upright faces and cars am

SUBMITTER: Curby KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4163203 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature