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Expertise is a cognitive achievement that involves experience and learning and that requires explicit, time‐consuming training specific to the relevant domain. It is intuitive that many such experts—radiologists, bird watchers, fingerprint examiners, and so forth—are better perceivers in the domain(s) of their expertise. The goal of this paper is to motivate three related claims. Perceptual expertise is genuinely perceptual and genuinely cognitive, and this phenomenon reveals how we can become...

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