Measurement of semantic knowledge of object categories: Creating the Semantic Vanderbilt Expertise Test (SVET)

Studying real-world perceptual expertise

“…While the potential population of AMT workers is large, it is unknown how many with high levels of domain expertise might be workers on the platform. For expertise research, recruitment via AMT may need to be supplemented by more direct recruitment of true domain experts (e.g., Van Gulick, 2014 ).…”

“…It is now well-recognized that self-reports of expertise are insufficient and that objective measures of expert performance are needed (e.g., Ericsson, 2006 , 2009 ); self-report measures of perceptual expertise are not always good predictors of performance (e.g., McGugin et al, 2012 ; Van Gulick, 2014 ). Therefore, recent work has used quantitative measures to assess expert abilities (e.g., see Gauthier et al, 2010 ).…”

“…A detailed review and discussion of such measures is well beyond the scope of a brief perspective piece. A variety of quantitative measures of perceptual expertise have been used and new measures are currently being developed – these efforts to develop and validate new measures reflect a quickly growing interest in exploring individual difference in visual cognition (e.g., Wilmer et al, 2010 ; Gauthier et al, 2013 ; Van Gulick, 2014 ).…”