A defense of the subordinate-level expertise account for the N170 component |
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Authors: | Rossion Bruno Curran Tim Gauthier Isabel |
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Affiliation: | Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Science, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. bruno_rossion@brown.edu |
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Abstract: | A recent paper in this journal reports two event-related potential (ERP) experiments interpreted as supporting the domain specificity of the visual mechanisms implicated in processing faces (Cognition 83 (2002) 1). The authors argue that because a large neurophysiological response to faces (N170) is less influenced by the task than the response to objects, and because the response for human faces extends to ape faces (for which we are not expert), we should reject the hypothesis that the face-sensitivity reflected by the N170 can be accounted for by the subordinate-level expertise model of object recognition (Nature Neuroscience 3 (2000) 764). In this commentary, we question this conclusion based on some of our own ERP work on expert object recognition as well as the work of others. |
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Keywords: | N170 Face processing Expertise Subordinate-level categorization |
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