Through the looking glass - How expertise shape perception

Description

Synaesthesia is a condition that affects a subset of the population, who experience consistent perceptual (or conceptual) deviations in one or more sensory domains, e.g., graphemes that elicit a colour sensation. While previous research has tried to link the phenomenon to various disorders, like autism, we believe that synaesthesia represents an example of the individual variation in cognitive and perceptual strategies that the brain builds in an interaction with environment. In this talk I will highlight some of our research on both expertise and synaesthesia to argue how the brain constructs perceptual and conceptual strategies that provides the basis for individual differences. The consequence of this suggestion is that individual differences may be much larger than people usually assume. Additionally, some deviations like developmental prosopagnosia may simply reflect this variation in perceptual analysis, rather than being a disorder.

Period	10 Jul 2024
Event title	Fachbereichskolloquium Psychologie
Event type	Seminar
Location	Marburg, Germany, HesseShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local