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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 p ‐Values [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2021 Abstract Traditional statistics instruction emphasizes a .05 significance level for hypothesis tests. Here, we investigate the consequences of this training for researchers’ mental representations of probabilities — whether .05 becomes a boundary, that is, a discontinuity of the mental number line, and alters ...
V. N. Vimal Rao +2 more
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Perceptual Learning, Categorical Perception, and Cognitive Permeation
Dialectica, 2021 Proponents of cognitive penetration often argue for the thesis on the basis of combined intuitions about categorical perception and perceptual learning. The claim is that beliefs penetrate perceptions in the course of learning to perceive categories.
Daniel Burnston
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Speech perception as categorization [PDF]
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 2010 Speech perception (SP) most commonly refers to the perceptual mapping from the highly variable acoustic speech signal to a linguistic representation, whether it be phonemes, diphones, syllables, or words. This is an example of categorization, in that potentially discriminable speech sounds are assigned to functionally equivalent classes.
Lori L, Holt, Andrew J, Lotto
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Frontiers in Education, 2023 IntroductionPrevious studies have shown that music training modulates adults’ categorical perception of Mandarin tones. However, the effect of music training on tone categorical perception ability in individuals in Chinese dialect areas remains unclear ...
Jiayi Hao +5 more
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Categorical perception of lexical tones based on acoustic-electric stimulation [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 The effect of low-frequency acoustic input on the categorical perception of lexical tones was investigated with simulated electric-acoustic hearing. A synthesized T1-T2 (flat-rising) tone continuum of Mandarin monosyllables /i/ was used, and they were ...
Yadong Niu +3 more
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The colour lexicon of the Serbian language - a study of dark blue and dark red colour categories Part 2: Categorical facilitation with Serbian colour terms [PDF]
Psihologija, 2018 Part 1 of this study (Jakovljev & Zdravković, 2018) isolated two frequent and salient non- BCTs in the Serbian language: teget ‘dark blue’ and bordo ‘dark red’, that segregate the blue and the red part of the colour space respectively.
Jakovljev Ivana, Zdravković Sunčica
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Automatic vigilance for negative words is categorical and general [PDF]
, 2008 With other factors controlled, negative words elicit slower lexical decisions and naming than positive words (Estes & Adelman, 2008; see record 2008-09984-001). Moreover, this marked difference in responding to negative words and to positive words (i.e.,
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Categorical results, categorical perception, and hindsight [PDF]
Perception & Psychophysics, 1984 Hindsight bias characterizes much of human action and is equally descriptive of scientific discovery. When Filippo Brunelleschi told the Overseers of the Works of the Florence Cathedral that he had a design for the Cupola of the Cathedral, they were reluctant to give him the commission until they saw the actual plans.
Dominic W. Massaro, Joseph M. Hary
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