Perceptual representations pick out individuals and attribute properties to them. This paper considers the role of perceptual attribution in determining or guiding reference objects. We consider three extant models relation between reference–all guides reference, no a privileged subset attributions reference–and argue that empirical evidence undermines all three. then defend flexible-attributiv...

BACKGROUND Large variations in perceptual directional microphone benefit, which far exceed the variation expected from physical performance measures of directional microphones, have been reported in the literature. The cause for the individual variation has not been systematically investigated. PURPOSE To determine the factors that are responsible for the individual variation in reported perc...

Perceptual constancy has played a significant role in philosophy of perception. It figures debates about direct realism, color ontology, and the minimal conditions for perceptual representation. Despite this, there is no general consensus what is. I argue that an adequate account must distinguish it from three distinct phenomena: mere sensory stability through proximal change, categorization di...

Monocular perception of egocentric distance via optic flow generated by head movement toward a target was investigated with a helmet-mounted video camera and display. Ability to perceive target distance was assessed with 2 response measures: verbal reports and reaches. Systematic and random errors differed as a function of the response measure. Verbal estimates of targets within and beyond reac...

In the past years, there have been an increasing number of instrumental investigations as to the nature of speech production errors, prompted by the concern that decades of transcription-based speech error data may be tainted by perceptual biases. While all of these instrumental studies suggest that errors are not, as previously thought, necessarily a matter of all-or-none, it is unclear what i...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES It is acknowledged that speech perceptual errors are increased in listeners who have sensorineural hearing loss as noise increases. However, there is a lack of detailed information for their error pattern. The purpose of the present study was to analyze substitution patterns of phoneme errors in Korean hearing aid (HA) and cochlear implant (CI) users who are postlingua...

Three experiments investigated whether the systematic errors previously observed in a triangle-completion task were caused by failures to form and update a cognitive heading or by use of perceived heading (even though an updated cognitive heading was available) during the response. These errors were replicated when participants indicated the origin of triangular paths they had imagined walking ...

This paper investigates the perceptual importance of typical errors occurring when transcribing polyphonic music excerpts into a symbolic form. The case of the automatic transcription of piano music is taken as the target application and two subjective tests are designed. The main test aims at understanding how human subjects rank typical transcription errors such as note insertion, deletion or...

This study tested the convergence of behavioral inhibition measures across emotional and non-emotional versions of the same go/no-go task in 85 college students. The two tasks differed only in the stimuli used for trial cues (i.e., circles versus facial expressions). Moderate correlations (r=.51-.56) between commission errors across the emotional and non-emotional tasks support the construct va...