Computational approaches to the development of perceptual expertise

specialists are noted for their remarkable abilities at categorizing, identifying and recognizing objects within their domain of expertise. A complete understanding of the development of perceptual expertise requires a combination of thorough empirical research and care-fully articulated computational theories that formalize specific hypotheses about the acquisition of expertise. A comprehensive computational theory of the develop-ment of perceptual expertise remains elusive, but we can look to existing computational models from the object-recognition, perceptual-categorization, automa-ticity and related literatures for possible starting points. Arguably, hypotheses about the development of per-ceptual expertise should first be explored within the context of existing computational models of visua