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The myth of categorical perception. [PDF]
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 color: evidence from secondary category boundary. [PDF]
Abdulrahman Saud Al-rasheed Department of Psychology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abstract: Despite a plethora of behavioral research exploring the phenomenon of color categorical perception (CP) known as "better ...
Al-Rasheed AS.
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Categorical Perception of Control. [PDF]
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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Mutual Information and Categorical Perception [PDF]
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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Categorical Perception for Emotional Faces [PDF]
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 M. B. Fugate
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Categorical perception of animal patterns [PDF]
As part of the more general issue of whether culture can affect perception, the present paper addresses the Whorfian question of whether the language available to describe perceptual experience can influence the experience itself. It investigated the effect of vocabulary on perceptual classification by the study of a remote culture (Himba) which ...
Goldstein, Julie, Davidoff, Jules B.
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Categorical perception of tactile distance [PDF]
The tactile surface forms a continuous sheet covering the body. And yet, the perceived distance between two touches varies across stimulation sites. Perceived tactile distance is larger when stimuli cross over the wrist, compared to when both fall on either the hand or the forearm.
Knight, Frances +2 more
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Face Familiarity, Distinctiveness, and Categorical Perception [PDF]
Four experiments with faces support the original interpretation of categorical perception (CP) as only present for familiar categories. Unlike in the results of Levin and Beale (2000), no evidence is found for face identity CP with unfamiliar faces.
Angeli, Adriana +2 more
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Differences can be perceived as gradual and quantitative, as with different shades of gray, or they can be perceived as more abrupt and qualitative, as with different colors. The first is called continuous perception and the second categorical perception. Categorical perception (CP) can be inborn or can be induced by learning.
Harnad, Stevan
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The Categorical Perception of the Music Scale a Challenge before the Microtonal Music
The text examines the phenomenon of categorical perception of musical pitch as defined by John Sloboda (1999), Jane A. and William Siegel (1977), Stefan Koelsch (2012), and William Yost (2013), in their researches in the field of music psychology.
Ivan Kostadinov Yanakiev
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