categorical perception
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcategoricalandperception
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categorical
adjective
uk/ˌkæt.əˈɡɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌkæt̬.əˈɡɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
without any doubt or possibility of ...
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perception
noun
uk/pəˈsep.ʃən/us/pɚ-/
a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how ...
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For a critic ofcategoricalperception, it is encouraging to analyze this phenomenon in terms of shepard's law of generalization.
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Another speculation is that phenomena related tocategoricalperceptionare created by the hidden variables of the emulator.
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Without further experiment we cannot conclude that performance in acategoricalperceptiontask really is achieved without any linguistic mediation.
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Chapter 7 takes a somewhat different perspective, focusing on the issues ofcategoricalperceptionand deceptive signalling.
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This covers neural coding of spectral information and includes mention of some possible neurophysiological substrates ofcategoricalperception.
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In contrast, in an odd-one out task, he showedcategoricalperception.
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Categoricalperception, similarity judgments, and concept formation have been extensively studied by psychologists.
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The literature oncategoricalperceptionhas been characterized by the use of cross-species paradigms.
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What has to be emphasized repeatedly is thatcategoricalperceptionis not a failure to discriminate.
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What researchers usually interpret ascategoricalperceptionis really nothing more than generalization.
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For example, thecategoricalperceptionof timbre is suited to the representation of nominal data, so that spurious inferences of order are not heard in the display.
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The chapter starts with research demonstrating that phonemes cannot be recognized simply by invariant acoustic properties, and thatcategoricalperceptionis a psychophysical (not purely physical) phenomenon.
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Berinmo speakers showedcategoricalperceptioneffects for the nol+wor boundary but not for the green+blue boundary.
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Hauser also explores the mental processes guiding perception and production of communication : higher level psychological processes includingcategoricalperception, categorization, causality and intentionality.
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In studying learnedcategoricalperception, themes are important.
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Emotionalcategoricalperceptioncan also be seen as a mix of categorical and dimensional perception.
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Similar to themes, labels are also important to learnedcategoricalperception.
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These effects are described as the result ofcategoricalperception.
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Based on these results, they proposed the notion ofcategoricalperceptionas a mechanism by which humans can identify speech sounds.
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