Our results demonstrate that the face-related N170 response is sensitive to visual face features and extend the characteristics of N170 with the sensitivity to repeated items to other familiar objects of expertise (i.e. words).
Expertise in birds, cars, and butterflies produces increased activity for objects of expertise primarily in ventral cortex (Gauthier et al. 2000; Rhodes et al. 2004; Xu 2005; but see Grill-Spector et al. 2004).
Earlier findings suggested that the main characteristic feature of reading-related N170 specialization lies in its left-lateralized topography [ 1, 3, 8], contrasting the typically bilateral or right-lateralized N170 topographies for faces and objects of expertise [ 2, 3].
These findings agree with prior findings that experts in cars, birds, and butterflies all show increased activation in ventral cortex for the objects of their expertise (Gauthier et al. 2000; Rhodes et al. 2004; Xu 2005, but see Grill-Spector et al. 2004).
Johnson compares Janeites to Trekkies, arguing that both "are derided and marginalized by dominant cultural institutions bent on legitimizing their own objects and protocols of expertise".
For example, Tanaka and Curran [ 42] reported larger N170 amplitudes when experts categorized objects in their domain of expertise relative to objects outside their domain of expertise.
Bird and dog experts are equally fast to categorize these animals at the subordinate and basic levels and they frequently use the subordinate name of an object in their field of expertise whereas non-experts use basic level names.
For the occasion, curators in 17 of the museum's departments have chosen objects in their fields of expertise from the permanent collection.
For the occasion, curators in 17 of the museum departments have chosen objects in their fields of expertise from the permanent collection.
By the end of the morning, I couldn't shake the feeling that the object of all this energy, expertise and professional good will — the modern military commission — was fundamentally unworthy of any of it, a jury-rigged ship foundering in a heavy sea of law, politics and the struggle among the branches of government that has been a hallmark of the prolonged Guantánamo saga.
As a result, though there may well be significant differences between various locations or areas of expertise, boundary objects serve to provide common ground, and are thus a way of establishing overall coherence and integration.
