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The Holistic Processing Account of Visual Expertise in Medical Image Perception: A Review

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Title
The Holistic Processing Account of Visual Expertise in Medical Image Perception: A Review
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, September 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01620
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Heather Sheridan, Eyal M. Reingold

Abstract

In the field of medical image perception, the holistic processing perspective contends that experts can rapidly extract global information about the image, which can be used to guide their subsequent search of the image (Swensson, 1980; Nodine and Kundel, 1987; Kundel et al., 2007). In this review, we discuss the empirical evidence supporting three different predictions that can be derived from the holistic processing perspective: Expertise in medical image perception is domain-specific, experts use parafoveal and/or peripheral vision to process large regions of the image in parallel, and experts benefit from a rapid initial glimpse of an image. In addition, we discuss a pivotal recent study (Litchfield and Donovan, 2016) that seems to contradict the assumption that experts benefit from a rapid initial glimpse of the image. To reconcile this finding with the existing literature, we suggest that global processing may serve multiple functions that extend beyond the initial glimpse of the image. Finally, we discuss future research directions, and we highlight the connections between the holistic processing account and similar theoretical perspectives and findings from other domains of visual expertise.

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Unknown 83 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 24%
Student > Master 10 12%
Student > Bachelor 10 12%
Researcher 7 8%
Professor 6 7%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 16 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 26 31%
Engineering 9 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 6%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 23 28%
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