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Domain specific knowledge such as visual art has been claimed to have an impact on the performance of various visual tasks. The limited amount of research led us to investigate where the reaction times (RT) of art- and non-art school students have been measured and compared. Data were collected from students from 3 Romanian art- and non-art high-schools. The design of the study is quasi- experimental. The purpose of this research was to investigate such difference in RT between students with different backgrounds ...

Object recognition involves processes that activate conscious interpretation of the visual field. Such processes are influenced by previous knowledge and experience. However, previous studies report interesting results, which draw out gender asymmetry in visual perception tasks performance, claimed to occur as a reason of biological differences, other findings attribute this difference to socio-cultural factors, as a result of semantic interpretation due to difference of environment. To test this assumption, the a...