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Mutual Information and Categorical Perception [PDF]
Psychological Science, 2021 Categorical perception refers to the enhancement of perceptual sensitivity near category boundaries, generally along dimensions that are informative about category membership. However, it remains unclear exactly which dimensions are treated as informative and why.
Jacob Feldman
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Haptic categorical perception of shape. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Categorization and categorical perception have been extensively studied, mainly in vision and audition. In the haptic domain, our ability to categorize objects has also been demonstrated in earlier studies.
Nina Gaißert +3 more
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Categorical Perception for Emotional Faces [PDF]
Emotion Review, 2013 Categorical perception (CP) refers to how similar things look different depending on whether they are classified as the same category. Many studies demonstrate that adult humans show CP for human emotional faces. It is widely debated whether the effect can be accounted for solely by perceptual differences (structural differences among emotional faces ...
Jennifer Fugate
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The myth of categorical perception. [PDF]
J Acoust Soc Am, 2022 Categorical perception is likely the single finding from speech perception with the biggest impact on cognitive science. However, within speech perception, it is widely known to be an artifact of task demands. Categorical perception is empirically defined as a relationship between phoneme identification and discrimination.
McMurray B.
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Categorical Perception of Control. [PDF]
eNeuro, 2020 The self is a distinct entity from the rest of the world, and actions and sensory feedback are our channels of interaction with the external world. This study examined how the sense of control influences people’s perception of sensorimotor input under the framework of categorical perception.
Wen W +5 more
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Impaired processing speed in categorical perception: Speech perception of children who stutter. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 There have been controversial debates across multiple disciplines regarding the underlying mechanism of developmental stuttering. Stuttering is often related to issues in the speech production system; however, the presence and extent of a speech ...
Mehdi Bakhtiar, Caicai Zhang, So Sze Ki
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Reduced Sensitivity to Between-Category Information but Preserved Categorical Perception of Lexical Tones in Tone Language Speakers With Congenital Amusia [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Previous studies have shown that for congenital amusics, long-term tone language experience cannot compensate for lexical tone processing difficulties.
Fei Chen, Fei Chen, Gang Peng, Gang Peng
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The irrationality of categorical perception. [PDF]
J Neurosci, 2013 Perception is often categorical: the perceptual system selects one interpretation of a stimulus even when evidence in favor of other interpretations is appreciable. Such categorization is potentially in conflict with normative decision theory, which mandates that the utility of various courses of action should depend on the probabilities of all ...
Fleming SM, Maloney LT, Daw ND.
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Categorical Perception of Lexical Tones in Mandarin-speaking Congenital Amusics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Previous research suggests that within Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics, only a subgroup has behavioral lexical tone perception impairments (tone agnosia), whereas the rest of amusics do not.
Wan Ting Huang +3 more
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N170 Reveals the Categorical Perception Effect of Emotional Valence [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 As an important attribute of facial expression, emotional valence has been well explored, but its processing mechanisms remain ambiguous. Investigating the categorical perception (CP) of emotional valence might help uncover the objective basis of the ...
Ruyi Qiu, Hailing Wang, Shimin Fu
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