The Expertise of Perception: How Experience Changes the Way We See the World

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James W. Tanaka (University of Victoria, British Columbia) Victoria Philibert (University of Toronto)

The Expertise of Perception

How Experience Changes the Way We See the World

James W. Tanaka (University of Victoria, British Columbia), Victoria Philibert (University of Toronto)

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Cambridge University Press
24 March 2022

Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Perception

Series: Elements in Perception

How does experience change the way we perceive the world? This Element explores the interaction between perception and experience by studying perceptual experts, people who specialize in recognizing objects such as birds, automobiles, dogs. It proposes perceptual expertise promotes a downward shift in object recognition where experts recognize objects in their domain of expertise at a more specific level than novices. To support this claim, it examines the recognition abilities and brain mechanisms of real-world experts. It discusses the acquisition of expertise by tracing the cognitive and neural changes that occur as a novice becomes an expert through training and experience. Next, it looks “under the hood” of expertise and examines the perceptual features that experts bring to bear to facilitate their fast, accurate, and specific recognition. The final section considers the future of human expertise as deep learning models and artificial intelligence compete with human experts in medical diagnosis.

By: James W. Tanaka (University of Victoria British Columbia), Victoria Philibert (University of Toronto)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9781108826419
ISBN 10: 1108826415
Series: Elements in Perception
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 24 March 2022
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: How Experience Changes the Way We See the World; 2. The Basic Level Category as the Entry-Point of Visual Recognition; 3. The Downward Shift Hypothesis; 4. Everyday, Developmental, and Neurodivergent Expertise; 5. Perceptual Expertise in the Laboratory; 6. Cognitive Mechanisms: Attention, Encoding and Short-term Memory; 7. Face Recognition and the Holistic Hypothesis; 8. Global and Local Processing; 9. Diagnostic Features: Color and Spatial Frequency; 10. Neural Substrates: EEGs and the N170 Component; 11. Convolutional Neural Networks: the new 'Artificial' Expert.