Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521385946 ISBN 13: 9780521385947

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

How do we sort the objects, people, events, and ideas in the world into their proper categories so that we may experience and interact with them? This fundamental question about human--and animal--perception and cognition is the subject of Categorical Perception, a comprehensive survey of a wide range of important research findings on the subject. The volume brings together all known examples of categorical perception, from research on humans and animals, infants and adults, in all the sense modalities: hearing, seeing, and touch. The perceptual findings are then interpreted in terms of the available cognitive and neuroscientific theories of how categorical perception is accomplished by the brain. Research on elementary perceptual and psychophysical categories is then compared with work on higher order categories such as objects, patterns, and abstract concepts. The book proceeds to an integrative view of categorization in general by exploring the most thoroughly investigated case of categorical perception--speech perception.

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Book Description

An interpretation of all known examples of categorical perception, from research on humans and animals, infants and adults, and in all the sense modalities: hearing, seeing, and touch.

Review

"...thought provoking and broadly relevant across a spectrum of issues of concern to cognitive scientists." Contemporary Psychology

"...provides a thorough survey of recent developments in the study of categorization and draws out some of the important consequences of this work to other studies of cognition." Philosophical Psychology

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521385946
• ISBN 13: 9780521385947
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 612
• Editor: Harnad Stevan R.