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iScience
; 26(2): 105976, 2023 Feb 17.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36794151
ABSTRACT
Face perception has long served as a classic example of domain specificity of mind and brain. But an alternative "expertise" hypothesis holds that putatively face-specific mechanisms are actually domain-general, and can be recruited for the perception of other objects of expertise (e.g., cars for car experts). Here, we demonstrate the computational implausibility of this hypothesis: Neural network models optimized for generic object categorization provide a better foundation for expert fine-grained discrimination than do models optimized for face recognition.