| Musical expertise modulates the effects of visual perceptual load. | |
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PMID: 19429949 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Several studies have demonstrated that faces are processed differently from other types of objects, implicating a special role that faces have within the human visual system. However, other studies have suggested that faces may be special only in that they constitute a highly familiar category of visual objects with which most humans have expertise. In this study, we tested a group of expert musicians with a musical instrument classification task during which irrelevant images of musical instruments were presented as visual distractors under varying conditions of perceptual load. Unlike nonmusicians (who had been tested in Lavie, Ro, & Russell, 2003, using the same paradigm as in the present study), the musicians processed these irrelevant images of musical instruments even under conditions of high perceptual load. These results suggest that musical instruments are processed automatically and without capacity limits in subjects with musical expertise and implicate a specialized processing mechanism for objects of high familiarity. |
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Authors:
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Tony Ro; Ashley Friggel; Nilli Lavie |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Attention, perception & psychophysics Volume: 71 ISSN: 1943-3921 ISO Abbreviation: Atten Percept Psychophys Publication Date: 2009 May |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2009-05-11 Completed Date: 2009-07-13 Revised Date: 2011-02-24 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 101495384 Medline TA: Atten Percept Psychophys Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 671-4 Citation Subset: IM |
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City College of the City, University of New York, New York, USA. tro@ccny.cuny.edu |
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Adolescent Attention* Discrimination (Psychology)* Female Humans Male Music* Pattern Recognition, Visual* Professional Competence* Reaction Time Recognition (Psychology) Semantics Young Adult |
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//Medical Research Council; //Wellcome Trust |
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