The Influence of Categories on Perception: Explaining the Perceptual Magnet Effect as Optimal Statistical Inference

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 752-782

  Feldman, Naomi H ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^b   Morgan, James L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; categorical perception; perceptual magnet effect; rational analysis; speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350458124     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017196     Document Type: Article

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