Title
Categorical perception of voicing, colors and facial expressions: A developmental study
Abstract
The aim of the present paper was to compare the development of perceptual categorization of voicing, colors and facial expressions in French-speaking children (from 6 to 8 years) and adults. Differences in both categorical perception, i.e. the correspondence between identification and discrimination performances, and in boundary precision, indexed by the steepness of the identification slope, were investigated. Whereas there was no significant effect of age on categorical perception, boundary precision increased with age, both for voicing and facial expressions though not for colors. These results suggest that the development of boundary precision arises from a general cognitive maturation across different perceptual domains. However, this is not without domain specific effects since we found (1) a correlation between the development of voicing perception and some reading performances and (2) an earlier maturation of boundary precision for colors compared to voicing and facial expressions. These comparative data indicate that whereas general cognitive maturation has some influence on the development of perceptual categorization, this is not without domain-specific effects, the structural complexity of the categories being one of them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.specom.2010.11.005
Speech Communication
Keywords
DocType
Volume
earlier maturation,facial expressions,different perceptual domain,boundary precision,french-speaking child,colors,perceptual categorization,development,voicing perception,general cognitive maturation,categorical perception,facial expression,identification slope,voice onset time,developmental study,structural complexity,indexation
Journal
53
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
Speech Communication
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ingrid Hoonhorst120.79
Victoria Medina241.28
C. Colin300.34
E. Markessis400.34
M. Radeau594.94
P. Deltenre600.34
W Serniclaes7488.02