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categorical perception: a standalone construct

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Perception

the tendency to discriminate stimuli better when they fall in different categories than when they are equally different within a category.

In perception, categorical perception refers to the tendency to discriminate stimuli better when they fall in different categories than when they are equally different within a category. This meaning comes from Liberman (1957) in Journal of Experimental Psychology.[1]

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References

  1. Liberman, A. M., Harris, K. S., Hoffman, H. S., & Griffith, B. C. (1957). The discrimination of speech sounds within and across phoneme boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54(5), 358-368. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0044417

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