Magen Speegle

• Vanderbilt University

SOME RESEARCH FINDS THAT FACE RECOGNITION IS LARGELY INDEPENDENT FROM THE RECOGNITION OF OTHER OBJECTS; A SPECIALIZED AND INNATE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE FACES COULD THEREFORE HAVE LITTLE OR NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE OBJECTS WE PROPOSE A NEW FRAMEWORK IN WHICH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE FOR ANY CATEGORY IS THE PRODUCT OF DOMAIN-GENERAL A...

Recognizing faces is a crucially important skill in our social environment. Recent work suggests that face recognition constitutes a special human ability that is relatively independent from domain-general factors such as general cognitive ability, motivation or attention. We present evidence questioning the distinction between face recognition and...

Theories of face perception and recognition are often tested in studies contrasting performance with faces to that with other objects. Tasks that compare faces to a single object category cannot attribute the difference to faces as being unique and cannot reveal differences between non-face categories. We introduce a test of object recognition, the...

Individual differences in face recognition are often contrasted with differences in object recognition using a single object category. Likewise, individual differences in perceptual expertise for a given object domain have typically been measured relative to only a single category baseline. In Experiment 1, we present a new test of object recogniti...