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Radoslaw Wincza^1,2, Calum Hartley³, Tim Donovan⁴

¹Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. rwincza.academic@gmail.com.

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Summary

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Medical image experts show enhanced visual perception, being less susceptible to common visual illusions. This domain-general advantage may stem from focused training on specific visual details.

Keywords:

Context integration Medical image perception Neuroplasticity Size constancy mechanisms Visual illusions

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Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Medical Imaging

Background:

Expertise in visual domains, like radiology, enhances stimulus-specific perception.
The transferability of such perceptual enhancements to general visual tasks remains largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether professional training in medical image interpretation confers domain-general perceptual advantages.
To assess if medical image experts exhibit altered susceptibility to established visual illusions.

Main Methods:

A cohort of medical image interpretation experts (n=44) and a control group (n=107) participated.
Participants completed forced-choice tasks involving the Ebbinghaus, Ponzo, Müller-Lyer, and Shepard Tabletops visual illusions.

Main Results:

Medical image experts demonstrated significantly reduced susceptibility to the Ebbinghaus, Ponzo, and Müller-Lyer illusions.
No significant difference in susceptibility was observed for the Shepard Tabletops illusion.
Experts exhibited superior perceptual accuracy across most tested visual illusions.

Conclusions:

Professional visual expertise in medical imaging can lead to domain-general perceptual benefits.
This enhanced perception may be linked to a local processing bias developed during specialized training.
Findings suggest that focused visual expertise influences fundamental perceptual mechanisms beyond the trained domain.