Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition Book

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: psychophysical and cognitive aspects of categorical perception: a critical overview S. Harnad;

Part I. Psychophysical Foundations of Categorical Perception:

1. Categoric perception: some psychophysical models R. E. Pastore;
2. Beyond the categorical/continuous distinction: a psychophysical approach to processing modes N. A. MacMillan;

Part II. Categorical Perception of Speech:
3. Phonetic category boundaries are flexible B. H. Repp and A. M. Liberman;
4. Auditory, articulatory, and learning explanations of categorical perception in speech S. Rosen and P. Howell;
5. On infant speech perception and the acquisition of language P. D. Eimas, J. L. Miller and P. W. Jusczyk;

Part III. Models for Speech Categorical Perception:
6. Neural models of speech perception: a case history R. E. Remez;
7. On the categorization of speech sounds R. L. Diehl and K. R. Kluender;
8. Categorical partition: a fuzzy-logical model of categorization behaviour D. W. Massaro;

Part IV. Categorical Perception in Other Modalities and Other Species:
9. Perceptual categories in vision and audition M. H. Bornstein;
10. Categorical perception of sound signals: facts and hypotheses from animal studies G. Ehret;
11. A naturalistic view of categorical perception C. T. Snowden;
12. The special-mechanisms debate in speech research: categorization tests on animals and infants P. K. Kuhl;
13. Brain mechanisms in categorical perception M. Wilson;

Part V. Psychophysiological Indices of Categorical Perception:
14. Electrophysiological indices of categoricalperception for speech D. L. Molfese;
15. Evoked potentials and color-defined categories D. Regan;

Part VI. Higher-order Categories:
16. Categorization processes and categorical perception D. L. Medin and L. W. Barsalou;
17. Developmental changes in category structure F. C. Keil and M. H. Kelly;
18. Spatial categories: the perception and conceptualization of spatial relations E. Bialystok and D. R. Olson;

Part VII. Cognitive Foundations:
19. Category induction and representation S. Harnad; Author index; Subject index.