Funded Grants

The perceptual expertise network: Dynamics in object perception

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Grantee: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Project Lead: Isabel Gauthier, Ph.D.Co-PIs: James Tanaka, Tim Curran, Michael Tarr, Marlene Behrmann, Daniel Bub, Robert Schultz, David Sheinberg, Garrison Cottrell, and Thomas Palmeri
Grant Title: The perceptual expertise network: Dynamics in object perception
Program Area: Bridging Brain, Mind & Behavior
Grant Type: Collaborative Activity Award
Year Awarded: 2005

Project Summary:

The Perceptual Expertise Network (PEN) team has successfully synchronized the research of different laboratory groups across domains and techniques to achieve a better understanding of how experience influences basic mechanisms of visual recognition. Equally important, PEN has been an experiment about the challenges and rewards of multi-laboratory collaboration and how it can, when appropriately structured, promote better science.

This new funding will allow PEN to continue developing effective network activities, while moving the focus of the group’s research into a new and exciting direction