Jim Tanaka |
Ph.D.
1989 (Oregon) joined Department in 2003 |
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Object and Face Recognition
Tanaka, J. W., Curran, T., Porterfield, A.L., & Collins, D. (2006). Activation of pre-existing and acquired face representations: The N250 ERP as an index of face familiarity, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1488-1497. Quinn, P. C. & Tanaka, J. W. (2007). Evidence for the early development of perceptual expertise: 6- to 7-month-old infants can be trained to form subordinate-level category representations. Memory & Cognition. 35, 1422-1431. Tanaka, J. W. & Corneille, O. (2007). Atypicality bias in face and object perception: Further tests of an attractor model. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 619-627. Bukach, C.M., Le Grand, R., Kaiser, M., Bub,
D. & Tanaka, J.W. (2008). Preservation of mouth region processing
in two cases of prosopagnosia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2,
227-244.
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My
research examines the cognitive and neurological processes underlying
object and face recognition. I am particularly interested in questions
related to how experience influences the way we perceive and recognize
objects in the world. To address these questions, we have been studying
the perceptual processes involved in expert object recognition,
such as birdwatching, and face recognition - a kind of perceptual
expertise in which we are all experts. In a related line of research,
we have been working with children with autism in a program designed
to improve their face recognition abilities.
