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  • Visual Perception
  • Expertise Studies

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  • Simultaneous processing of objects from different categories can lead to competition, particularly in individuals with expertise in those categories.
  • The relationship between single object recognition and ensemble coding (processing of group-level properties) is not fully understood.
  • It was hypothesized that competition observed in object recognition might extend to ensemble coding, especially concerning expertise.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether competition occurs between face and car processing during ensemble coding.
  • To determine if car expertise influences the ensemble coding of faces when cars are present as distractors.
  • To examine the relationship between single object recognition and ensemble coding.

Main Methods:

  • Participants judged the identity variability of face arrays presented with task-irrelevant distractors (cars or novel objects).
  • Car expertise, general object recognition ability, and face recognition ability were measured.
  • Bayesian statistical methods were employed to analyze the data.

Main Results:

  • No evidence of competition affecting face ensemble coding as a function of car expertise was found.
  • Face recognition ability was a significant predictor of performance in judging face identity variability.
  • Distractor type (cars or novel objects) did not influence the ensemble coding of faces.

Conclusions:

  • Ensemble coding appears to be distinct from single-object recognition in its susceptibility to inter-category competition.
  • Expertise in one domain (e.g., cars) does not interfere with ensemble coding in another domain (e.g., faces).
  • Face recognition ability is crucial for ensemble coding of faces, irrespective of distractor category.