P-curving the fusiform face area: Meta-analyses support the expertise hypothesis

EJ Burns, T Arnold, CM Bukach - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Psychologists have debated whether the right fusiform face area's (FFA) responses are
domain specific to faces, or domain general for certain object categories that we have visual …

[HTML][HTML] Extensive childhood experience with Pokémon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex

J Gomez, M Barnett, K Grill-Spector - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
The functional organization of human high-level visual cortex, such as the face-and place-
selective regions, is strikingly consistent across individuals. An unanswered question in …

Is an artificial limb embodied as a hand? Brain decoding in prosthetic limb users

RO Maimon-Mor, TR Makin - PLoS Biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The potential ability of the human brain to represent an artificial limb as a body part
(embodiment) has been inspiring engineers, clinicians, and scientists as a means to …

Socio‐cognitive, expertise‐based and appearance‐based accounts of the other‐'race'effect in face perception: A label‐based systematic review of neuroimaging …

L Ficco, VI Müller, JM Kaufmann… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two competing theories explain the other‐'race'effect (ORE) either by greater perceptual
expertise to same‐'race'(SR) faces or by social categorization of other‐'race'(OR) faces at …

Deep learning models challenge the prevailing assumption that face-like effects for objects of expertise support domain-general mechanisms

G Yovel, I Grosbard… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The question of whether task performance is best achieved by domain-specific, or domain-
general processing mechanisms is fundemental for both artificial and biological systems …

Understanding professional expertise in unfamiliar face matching

D White, A Towler, RI Kemp - Forensic face matching: Research …, 2021 - books.google.com
Deciding whether images of unfamiliar faces are of the same person or different people has
been studied extensively in laboratory research since the early 1990s. Yet it is only very …

Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code

Y Ikutani, T Kubo, S Nishida, H Hata, K Matsumoto… - eneuro, 2021 - eneuro.org
Expertise enables humans to achieve outstanding performance on domain-specific tasks,
and programming is no exception. Many studies have shown that expert programmers …

Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex

JB Ritchie, SG Wardle, M Vaziri-Pashkam… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
A wealth of studies report evidence that occipitotemporal cortex tessellates into" category-
selective" brain regions that are apparently specialized for representing ecologically …

How visual expertise changes representational geometry: A behavioral and neural perspective

S Duyck, F Martens, CY Chen… - Journal of cognitive …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Many people develop expertise in specific domains of interest, such as chess, microbiology,
radiology, and, the case in point in our study: ornithology. It is poorly understood to what …

Holistic processing only? The role of the right fusiform face area in radiological expertise

EM Kok, B Sorger, K van Geel, A Gegenfurtner… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Radiologists can visually detect abnormalities on radiographs within 2s, a process that
resembles holistic visual processing of faces. Interestingly, there is empirical evidence using …