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Beyond Perceptual Expertise: Revisiting The Neural Substrates Of Expert Object Recognition, Assaf Harel, Dwight J. Kravitz, Chris I. Baker Dec 2013

Beyond Perceptual Expertise: Revisiting The Neural Substrates Of Expert Object Recognition, Assaf Harel, Dwight J. Kravitz, Chris I. Baker

Psychology Faculty Publications

Real-world expertise provides a valuable opportunity to understand how experience shapes human behavior and neural function. In the visual domain, the study of expert object recognition, such as in car enthusiasts or bird watchers, has produced a large, growing, and often-controversial literature. Here, we synthesize this literature, focusing primarily on results from functional brain imaging, and propose an interactive framework that incorporates the impact of high-level factors, such as attention and conceptual knowledge, in supporting expertise. This framework contrasts with the perceptual view of object expertise that has concentrated largely on stimulus-driven processing in visual cortex. One prominent version of …


On The Importance Of Expectation In Hypnosis And Psychotherapy, Rubin Battino Oct 2013

On The Importance Of Expectation In Hypnosis And Psychotherapy, Rubin Battino

Human Services Faculty Publications

Expectation is considered to be the basis of the placebo effect in both medicine and psychotherapy. Expectation involves hope and anticipation and wishing.


On The Importance Of Concerns (Vs. Problems) In Hypnosis And Psychotherapy, Rubin Battino Oct 2013

On The Importance Of Concerns (Vs. Problems) In Hypnosis And Psychotherapy, Rubin Battino

Human Services Faculty Publications

The development of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) by Steve de Shazer and coworkers was a paradigmatic 180 degree shift from the problem-focused therapy that was based initially on the medical model. Yet, even with SFBT the work is still about the “problems” that the clients present.


Combat Disclosure In Intimate Relationships: Mediating The Impact Of Partner Support On Posttraumatic Stress, Christina Balderrama-Durbin, Douglas K. Snyder, Jeffrey A. Cigrang, G. Wayne Talcott, Jolyn Tatum, Monty Baker, Daniel Cassidy, Scott Sonnek, Richard E. Heyman, Amy M. Smith Slep Aug 2013

Combat Disclosure In Intimate Relationships: Mediating The Impact Of Partner Support On Posttraumatic Stress, Christina Balderrama-Durbin, Douglas K. Snyder, Jeffrey A. Cigrang, G. Wayne Talcott, Jolyn Tatum, Monty Baker, Daniel Cassidy, Scott Sonnek, Richard E. Heyman, Amy M. Smith Slep

School of Professional Psychology Faculty Publications

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Are All Types Of Expertise Created Equal? Car Experts Use Different Spatial Frequency Scales For Subordinate Categorization Of Cars And Faces, Assaf Harel, Shlomo Bentin Jun 2013

Are All Types Of Expertise Created Equal? Car Experts Use Different Spatial Frequency Scales For Subordinate Categorization Of Cars And Faces, Assaf Harel, Shlomo Bentin

Psychology Faculty Publications

A much-debated question in object recognition is whether expertise for faces and expertise for non-face objects utilize common perceptual information. We investigated this issue by assessing the diagnostic information required for different types of expertise. Specifically, we asked whether face categorization and expert car categorization at the subordinate level relies on the same spatial frequency (SF) scales. Fifteen car experts and fifteen novices performed a category verification task with spatially filtered images of faces, cars, and airplanes. Images were categorized based on their basic (e.g. ‘‘car’’) and subordinate level (e.g. ‘‘Japanese car’’) identity. The effect of expertise was not evident …


Synthetic Task Environments And The Three Body Problem, John M. Flach May 2013

Synthetic Task Environments And The Three Body Problem, John M. Flach

Psychology Faculty Publications

The challenge for our panel was to address the opportunities and challenges of synthetic task environments for basic research on human performance in sociotechnical systems. In doing this, the classical three-body problem from physics is used as a metaphor to illustrate the contrast between dyadic and triadic semiotic models of cognitive systems. In the context of this metaphor, synthetic task environments offer a means to bring some of the additional complexities of triadic semiotic systems under experimental control where converging empirical methods can help to titrate through the additional complexity to distill basic theoretical insights that will potentially have practical …