• Login
    View Item 
    •   BEARdocs Home
    • Honors College
    • Theses - Honors College
    • View Item
    •   BEARdocs Home
    • Honors College
    • Theses - Honors College
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Categorical Perception as an Emergent Feature of General Perception

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Thesis (135.2Kb)
    Permissions Form (165.2Kb)
    Access rights
    Worldwide access
    Date
    2013-12-02
    Author
    Price, Dale
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Humans perceive linguistic phonemes categorically, that is, in distinct clusters rather than as continua. The same pattern of categorical perception (CP) has also been documented with a wide variety of other stimuli, including nonspeech sounds and faces. Although CP has often been assumed to be a distinct mode of perception, some studies have suggested that it is an emergent phenomenon that can occur with any general perceptual system. In this thesis I provide an overview of the research on CP, then examine findings on the factors which cause CP in humans and synthetic CP in simulated neural networks in order to address the hypothesis that categorical perception is merely a feature of general perception and suggest possibilities for future investigation.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8875
    Department
    University Scholars.
    Collections
    • Theses - Honors College

    Copyright © Baylor® University All rights reserved. Legal Disclosures.
    Baylor University Waco, Texas 76798 1-800-BAYLOR-U
    Baylor University Libraries | One Bear Place #97148 | Waco, TX 76798-7148 | 254.710.2112 | Contact: libraryquestions@baylor.edu
    If you find any errors in content, please contact librarywebmaster@baylor.edu
    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    TDL
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV
     

     

    Browse

    All of DSpaceCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Copyright © Baylor® University All rights reserved. Legal Disclosures.
    Baylor University Waco, Texas 76798 1-800-BAYLOR-U
    Baylor University Libraries | One Bear Place #97148 | Waco, TX 76798-7148 | 254.710.2112 | Contact: libraryquestions@baylor.edu
    If you find any errors in content, please contact librarywebmaster@baylor.edu
    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    TDL
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV