Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 We investigated categorical perception of rising and falling pitch contours by tonal and non-tonal listeners. Specifically, we determined minimum durations needed to perceive both contours and compared to those of production, how stimuli duration affects
Si Chen, Yiqing Zhu, Ratree Wayland
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Relationships between Categorical Perception of Phonemes, Phoneme Awareness, and Visual Attention Span in Developmental Dyslexia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We tested the hypothesis that the categorical perception deficit of speech sounds in developmental dyslexia is related to phoneme awareness skills, whereas a visual attention (VA) span deficit constitutes an independent deficit.
Rachel Zoubrinetzky +4 more
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Categorical perception of familiar objects [PDF]
Cognition, 2002 We report three experiments where the categorical perception of familiar, three-dimensional objects was investigated. A continuum of shape change between 15 pairs of objects was created and the images along the continuum were used as stimuli. In Experiment 1 participants were first required to discriminate pairs of images of objects that lay along the ...
Fiona Newell, Heinrich H Bülthoff
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Categorical results do not imply categorical perception [PDF]
Perception & Psychophysics, 1982 Categorical perception refers to the ability to discriminate between- but not within-category differences along a stimulus continuum. Although categorical perception was thought to be unique to speech, recent studies have yielded similar results with nonspeech continua.
Dominic Massaro, Massaro Dominic W
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Category Structure and Categorical Perception Jointly Explained by Similarity-Based Information Theory [PDF]
Entropy, 2018 Categorization is a fundamental information processing phenomenon in the brain. It is critical for animals to compress an abundance of stimulations into groups to react quickly and efficiently.
Romain Brasselet, Angelo Arleo
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Musical experience modulates categorical perception of lexical tones by native Chinese speakers [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Although musical training has been shown to facilitate both native and nonnative phonetic perception, it remains unclear whether and how musical experience affects native speakers’ categorical perception (CP) of speech at the suprasegmental level.
Han eWu +5 more
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Categorical perception of color: evidence from secondary category boundary [PDF]
Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2015 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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A reappraisal of the Uncanny Valley: Categorical perception or frequency-based sensitization? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The uncanny valley (UCV) hypothesis describes a non-linear relationship between perceived human-likeness and affective response. The uncanny valley refers to an intermediate level of human-likeness that is associated with strong negative affect.
Tyler John Burleigh +1 more
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The Development of Categorical Perception of Segments and Suprasegments in Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Fei Chen, Yuxiao Yang, Jiaqiang Zhu
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Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015 Stephen Nowicki +2 more
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