Over the past three decades, object recognition moved away from domain-general
questions, favoring investigation of putative category-specific mechanisms. But growing …

Musical practice may benefit not only domain-specific abilities, such as pitch discrimination
and music performance, but also domain-general abilities, like executive functioning and …

Visual comparison—comparing visual stimuli (eg, fingerprints) side by side and determining
whether they originate from the same or different source (ie,“match”)—is a complex …

When sight-reading a score, a timpanist needs to decide in real-time which stick to use to
play a specific note while interpreting the musical material. Our main point of inquiry seeks to …

Expertise research is currently in a dynamic phase, with traditional practice-centred theories
being replaced by multifactorial models, in which expertise performance is seen to depend …

We explored evidence for a domain-general contribution, domain-specific ability, and the
influence of experience and personality on the visual recognition of prepared food–a …