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It's not how many dimensions you have, it's what you do with them: Evidence from speech perception
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It's not how many dimensions you have, it's what you do with them: Evidence from speech perception

Bob McMurray and David Gow
The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.28(1), pp.31-31
02/2005
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05400011

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Abstract

Contrary to Pothos, rule- and similarity-based processes cannot be distinguished by dimensionality. Rather, one must consider the goal of the processing: what the system will do with the resulting representations. Research on speech perception demonstrates that the degree to which speech categories are gradient (or similarity-based) is a function of the utility of within-category variation for further processing.

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