Studying real-world perceptual expertise

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Shen, Jianhong ^a   Mack, Michael L ^b   Palmeri, Thomas J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Birding; Categorization; Expertise; Learning; Perceptual Expertise; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906342615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00857     Document Type: Article

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