Training 'greeble' experts: A framework for studying expert object recognition processes

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 15-16, 1998, Pages 2401-2428

  Gauthier, Isabel ^a   Williams, Pepper ^b   Tarr, Michael J ^c   Tanaka, James ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Configural encoding; Face recognition; Neural networks; Object categorization; Perceptual expertise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031875489     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00442-2     Document Type: Article

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