TY  - INPR
ID  - cogprints3017
UR  - http://cogprints.org/3017/
A1  - Harnad, Stevan
Y1  - 2003///
N2  - 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. Formerly thought to be peculiar to speech and color perception, CP turns out to be far more general, and may be related to how the neural networks in our brains detect the features that allow us to sort the things in the world into their proper categories, "warping" perceived similarities and differences so as to compress some things into the same category and separate others into different categories
PB  - MacMillan: Nature Publishing Group
KW  - color
KW  -  language
KW  -  learning
KW  -  motor theory
KW  -  neural nets
KW  -  phonemes
KW  -  speech
KW  -  symbol grounding
KW  -  Whorf hypothesis
TI  - Categorical Perception
AV  - public
ER  -

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