Holding a Stick at Both Ends: On Faces and Expertise

Assaf Harel; Dwight J. Kravitz; Chris I. Baker

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00442

Holding a Stick at Both Ends: On Faces and Expertise

Assaf Harel, Dwight J. Kravitz, Chris I. Baker

Wright State University

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Ever since Diamond and Carey's (1986) seminal work, object expertise has often been viewed through the prism of face perception (for a thorough discussion, see Tanaka and Gauthier, 1997; Sheinberg and Tarr, 2010). According to Wong and Wong (2014, W&W), however, this emphasis has simply been a response to the question of modularity of face perception, and has not been about expertise in and of itself. It is precisely this conflation of questions of expertise and modularity, the consequent focus on FFA, and the detrimental effect this had on the field of object expertise research that we discussed as part of our original review (Harel et al., 2013).

Original language	American English
Journal	Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00442
State	Published - Jun 20 2014

Keywords

Expertise
Object Recognition
Perceptual Expertise
Review
Visual Cortex
Visual Perception
fMRI

Disciplines

Cognition and Perception
Cognitive Psychology
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences

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