How do categories in vision that I learn in psych differ from speech categories?

Hint: Go back to our summary of category types from Friday (slide 6), and try to fit examples of the vision categories you've seen into our classification.

Returning to the question of species-specificity

Hi all,

I wanted to leave a link to an excellent article which discussed how studies of non-human animal perception contribute to our theories of human perception: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~lholt/publications/KluenderLottoHolt2005.pdf

Kuhl 2004: Perceptual abilities

Why can't monkeys talk if they can perceive a little better than humans?

Are children's ears attuned sharper than adults to hear subtle acoustic changes?

I'm not very clear on the topics that include a continuum of sounds and why babies can distinguish these sounds but outgrow the ability