Effects of Selective Adaptation on the Perception of Speech and Visual Patterns: Evidence for Feature Detectors

A trend in modern psychology is to assume that during perception complex stimulus events are first analyzed by neuronal structures or feature detectors into their component properties or features. The final percept is assumed to be a result of the recoding of these features according to the rules of operation of some higher, integrative level of processing. This type of perceptual model has had wide application in modern psychology, having been proffered in a variety of forms to explain such phenomena as the perception of visual patterns, including geometric shapes, letters, and words (e. g., Neisser, 1966), and the perception of the segmental units of speech (e. g., Abbs and Sussman, 1971).

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