{"id":7436,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/categorical_perception\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:51","slug":"categorical_perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/categorical_perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Categorical perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perceptual phenomenon by whichvarious instances of stimuli equally distant from each other in their physicalproperties are mapped to different perceptual categories (i.e., \/b\/ and \/p\/). &nbsp;Thus, it&nbsp;means that a change insome variable along a continuum not perceived as gradual but as an instance of a discrete categorie. &nbsp;Some stimuli are perceived as belonging to the same category, while a sharp boundarybetween a few stimuli is perceived. &nbsp;In the context of&nbsp;speech, categoricalperception enables people to recognize words even when vowels may bepronounced differently. &nbsp;Moreover, it is influenced by the linguistic environment. &nbsp;Using a number of standardized procedures to test speech perception in infants (e.g.,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CSMjKDZvNWA\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CSMjKDZvNWA?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conditioned head turning response<\/a>), an important research enterprise is how it facilitates&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1364661305002652\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1364661305002652?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">word acquisition<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;There is also a body of infant research focused on other modalities than speech (e.g., perception of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11694087\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11694087?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facial expressions<\/a>&nbsp;, and it may in fact involve cross-modal perception. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Configural processing, Cross-modal perception, <a href=\"face_processing\">Face processing<\/a>, <a href=\"speech_development\">Speech development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perceptual phenomenon by whichvarious instances of stimuli equally distant from each other in their physicalproperties are mapped to different perceptual categories (i.e., \/b\/ and \/p\/). &nbsp;Thus, it&nbsp;means that a change insome variable along a continuum not perceived as gradual but as an instance of a discrete categorie. &nbsp;Some stimuli are perceived as belonging to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/categorical_perception\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Categorical perception&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}