Are All Types of Expertise Created Equal? Car Experts Use Different Spatial Frequency Scales for Subordinate Categorization of Cars and Faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Harel, Assaf ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MALE; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FACE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879486367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067024     Document Type: Article

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