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Weisman, Ronald G.; Balkwill, Laura-Lee; Hoeschele, Marisa; Moscicki, Michele K.; Bloomfield, Laurie L.; Sturdy, Christopher B. – Learning and Motivation, 2010
This research examined generality of the phylogenetic rule that birds discriminate frequency ranges more accurately than mammals. Human absolute pitch chroma possessors accurately tracked transitions between frequency ranges. Independent tests showed that they used note naming (pitch chroma) to remap the tones into ranges; neither possessors nor…
Descriptors: Animals, Perception, Tone Languages, Classification
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Sanborn, Adam N.; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Shiffrin, Richard M. – Cognitive Psychology, 2010
A key challenge for cognitive psychology is the investigation of mental representations, such as object categories, subjective probabilities, choice utilities, and memory traces. In many cases, these representations can be expressed as a non-negative function defined over a set of objects. We present a behavioral method for estimating these…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Multidimensional Scaling, Cognitive Psychology, Probability