Modeling unsupervised perceptual category learning

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-43

  Lake, Brenden M ^a   Vallabha, Gautam K ^a   McClelland, James L ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MATHWORKS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Human learning; Mixture of Gaussians; Online learning; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

HUMAN LEARNING; LEARNING PROCESS; MIXTURE ESTIMATION; MIXTURE OF GAUSSIANS; ONLINE LEARNING; SPEECH SOUNDS; VISUAL STIMULUS;

E-LEARNING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INTERNET; LABELS; MIXTURES; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 77955673985     PISSN: 19430604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2009.2021703     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. D. L. Medin and M. M. Schaffer, "Context theory of classification learning," Psychol. Rev., vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 207-238, 1978.
2. J. R. Anderson, "The adaptive nature of human categorization," Psychol. Rev., vol. 98, pp. 409-429, 1991.
3. B. C. Love, D. L. Medin, and T. Gureckis, "Sustain: A network model of category learning," Psychol. Rev., vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 309-332, 2004.
4. J. F. Werker and R. C. Tees, "Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life," Infant Behav. Develop., vol. 7, pp. 49-63, 1984.
5. P. K. Kuhl, E. Stevens, A. Hayashi, T. Deguchi, S. Kiritani, and P. Iverson, "Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months," Develop. Sci., vol. 9, no. 2, pp. F13-F21, 2006.
6. O. Rosenthal, S. Fusi, and S. Hochstein, "Forming classes by stimulus frequency: Behavior and theory," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 98, pp. 4265-4270, 2001.
7. G. K. Vallabha, J. L. McClelland, F. Pons, J. F. Werker, and S. Amano, "Unsupervised learning of vowel categories from infant-directed speech," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 104, no. 33, pp. 13 273-13 278, 2007.
8. D. E. Rumelhart and D. Zipser, "Feature discovery by competitive learning," Cogn. Sci., vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 75-112, 1985.
9. R. K. Goldstone, "Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination," J. Exper. Psychol., Gen., vol. 123, no. 2, pp. 178-200, 1994.
10. S. V. Stevenage, "Which twin are you? A demonstration of induced categorical perception of identical twin faces," Br. J. Psychology., vol. 89, pp. 39-57, 1998.
11. K. R. Livingston, J. K. Andrews, and S. Harnad, "Categorical perception effects induced by category learning," J. Exper. Psychol., vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 732-753, 1998.
12. B. McMurray, R. N. Aslin, and J. Toscano, "Statistical learning of phonetic categories: Insights from a computational approach," Develop. Sci., 2009.
13. L. Sabourin, J. F. Werker, L. Bosch, and N. Sebastián- Gallés, "Perceiving vowels in a tight vowel space: Evidence from monolingual infants," Develop. Sci., submitted for publication.
14. B. de Boer and P. K. Kuhl, "Investigating the role of infant-directed speech with a computer model," Acoust. Res. Lett. Online, vol. 4, pp. 129-134, 2003.
15. J. Maye, J. F. Werker, and L. Gerken, "Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination," Cognition, vol. 82, pp. B101-B111, 2002.
16. J. E. Pegg and J. F. Werker, "Adult and infant perception of two english phones," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 102, pp. 3742-3753, 1997.
17. W. M. Jenkins, M. M. Merzenich, M. T. Ochs, T. Allard, and E. Guíc-Robles, "Functional reorganization of primary somatosensory cortex in adult owl monkeys after behaviorally controlled tactile stimulation," J. Neurophysiol., vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 82-104, 1990.
18. O. Rosenthal, personal communication Jan. 2008.