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- Title
Smaller holistic processing of faces associated with face drawing experience.
- Authors
Zhou, Guomei; Cheng, Zhijie; Zhang, Xudong; Wong, Alan
- Abstract
The type of experience involved with an object category has been regarded as one important factor in shaping of the human object recognition system. Laboratory training studies have shown that different kinds of learning experience with the same set of novel objects resulted in different perceptual and neural changes. Whether this applies to natural real-world objects remains to be seen. We compared two groups of observers who had different learning experiences with faces, using holistic processing as a dependent measure. We found that, while ordinary observers had extensive individuation experience with faces and displayed typical holistic face processing, art students who had acquired additional experience in drawing faces, and thus in attending to parts of a face, showed less holistic processing than did ordinary observers. These results converge with laboratory training studies on the role of type of experience in the development of different perceptual markers for different object categories. It is thus insufficient to categorize expertise simply in terms of object domains (e.g., expertise with faces). Instead, perceptual expertise should be classified in terms of the underlying process or task demand.
- Subjects
FACE perception; EXPERIENTIAL learning; VISUAL learning; INTERSTIMULUS interval; ANALYSIS of variance
- Publication
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
1069-9384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13423-011-0174-x