Browsing by Subject "Expertise"

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    • Category Specific Spatial Frequency Adaptation with Faces and Cars 
      Beki, Yoseph Ali (Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
    • Democracy's Distrust: Contested Values and the Decline of Expertise 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Harvard Law Review Forum, 2011)
      This response to Professor Dan Kahan’s recent Harvard Foreword, Neutral Principles, Motivated Cognition, and Some Problems for Constitutional Law, argues that while Kahan accurately describes the contemporary “neutrality ...
    • The effects of diagram format on students' interpretation of evolutionary diagrams 
      Shade, Courtney K. (Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-04)
      The present study researches university students' understanding of different forms of evolutionary diagrams. It is important to look at students' understanding of evolution so that teachers can use the most effective ...
    • Improving Medical Image Decision Making by Leveraging Metacognitive Processes and Representational Similarity 
      Hasan, Eeshan; 0000-0002-1429-8050 (2022-03-29)
      Department: Psychology
      Improving the accuracy of medical image interpretation can improve the diagnosis of numerous diseases. We compared different approaches to aggregating repeated decisions about medical images to improve the accuracy of a ...
    • Inside the Bankruptcy Judge's Mind 
      Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Boston University Law Review, 2006)
      Specialization is common in medicine. Doctors become oncologists, radiologists, urologists, or even hernia repair specialists. Specialization is also common among practicing lawyers, who become estate planners or products ...
    • The Myth of the Generalist Judge 
      Cheng, Edward K. (Stanford Law Review, 2008-12)
      Conventional judicial wisdom assumes and indeed celebrates the ideal of the generalist judge, but do judges really believe in it? This Article empirically tests this question by examining opinion assignments in the federal ...
    • Opinion Specialization 
      Cheng, Edward K. (Judicature, 2008)
      In accord with traditions celebrating the generalist judge, the federal judiciary has consistently resisted proposals for specialized courts. Outward support for specialization, if it exists at all, is confined to narrow ...
    • Perceptual expertise affects visual short-term memory and the time-course of perceptual encoding 
      Curby, Kim Michelle (2006-01-27)
      Department: Psychology
      Shelves are stocked with endless books offering advice on how to increase one’s memory capacity, but it is unclear if all types of memory are open to improvement. For example, according to one prominent theory, visual ...
    • Role of Auditory Feedback in Mandarin Tone Production in Native and Non-Native Speakers 
      Chen, Yiran (Vanderbilt University8, 2018-04-23)
      The current study examines the role of auditory feedback in Mandarin tone production among native and non-native speakers of Chinese through two production tasks where participants are asked to read and pronounce pseudo-words ...
    • Testing category-specific spatial frequency adaptation 
      Grubb, Kara B. (Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
      This study examined representational overlap between faces and scenes by means of spatial frequency adaptation. The results show that adaptation to faces and scenes in either low or high spatial frequencies affect the ...