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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

Object recognition is influenced by experience.
Laboratory studies show varied learning experiences cause perceptual and neural changes.
It's unclear if this applies to real-world object learning.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how different types of experience with faces affect holistic processing.
To compare perceptual changes in ordinary observers versus art students with specialized face-drawing experience.

Main Methods:

Compared holistic face processing in two groups: ordinary observers and art students.
Utilized holistic processing as the key dependent measure.
Focused on real-world object experience (faces) rather than novel objects.

Main Results:

Ordinary observers exhibited typical holistic face processing due to extensive face individuation experience.
Art students, with experience drawing faces and focusing on parts, showed reduced holistic processing.
Type of experience, not just object domain, influences perceptual processing.

Conclusions:

Specific learning experiences, like drawing faces, alter perceptual processing.
Perceptual expertise is better classified by underlying processes and task demands, not just object domains.
Findings support the role of experience type in developing distinct perceptual markers for object categories.