Expertise in person recognition

Expertise in tactile pattern recognition.

This article explores expertise in tactile object recognition. In one study, participants were trained to differing degrees of accuracy on tactile identification of two-dimensional patterns. Recognition of these patterns, of inverted versions of these patterns, and of subparts of these patterns was then tested. The inversion effect (better recognition of upright than inverted patterns) and the ...

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Development of perceptual expertise in emotion recognition.

How do children's early social experiences influence their perception of emotion-specific information communicated by the face? To examine this question, we tested a group of abused children who had been exposed to extremely high levels of parental anger expression and physical threat. Children were presented with arrays of stimuli that depicted the unfolding of facial expressions, from neutral...

Development of Expertise in Face Recognition

The ability to recognize individual faces is a highly specialized skill that emerges during infancy, continues to develop throughout childhood, and becomes adult-like in late adolescence. In this chapter we explore the devel­ opmental progression of face recognition and consider possible mechanisms that underlie it. Specifically, we evaluate the role of visual experience in driving the developm...

Learning Person-Person Interaction in Collective Activity Recognition

Collective activity is a collection of atomic activities (individual person's activity) and can hardly be distinguished by an atomic activity in isolation. The interactions among people are important cues for recognizing collective activity. In this paper, we concentrate on modeling the person-person interactions for collective activity recognition. Rather than relying on hand-craft description...