Supervised and Unsupervised Learning of Multidimensional Acoustic Categories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1913-1933

  Goudbeek, Martijn ^a,b   Swingley, Daniel ^c   Smits, Roel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory categories; nonspeech; supervised learning; unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73649097635     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015781     Document Type: Article

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