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 ...

Organized into sections representing major areas of theoretical and practical importance for the application of perception psychology to human performance and the design and operation of ...

It combines the theories of cognitive psychology and computational modelling with experimental data about the brain. The debate over cognitive penetrability of perception, which has been largely ...