Peter D. Eimas
Brown University
72 Papers
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Peter D. Eimas is an academic researcher from Brown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Speech perception & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 72 publications. Previous affiliations of Peter D. Eimas include Haskins Laboratories.
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Papers
Speech perception in infants.
TL;DR: Recovery from habituation was greater for a given acoustic difference when the two stimuli were from different adult phonemic categories than when they were from the same category.
Evidence for representations of perceptually similar natural categories by 3-month-old and 4-month-old infants.
TL;DR: The paired-preference procedure was used in a series of experiments to explore the abilities of infants aged 3 and 4 months to categorize photographic exemplars from natural (adult-defined) basic-level categories and revealed that infants could form categorical representations for dogs and cats that excluded birds.
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Selective adaptation of linguistic feature detectors
Peter D. Eimas,John D. Corbit +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used a selective adaptation procedure to obtain evidence for the existence of linguistic feature detectors analogous to visual feature detectors, which are each sensitive to a restricted range of voice onset times, the physical continuum underlying the perceived phonetic distinctions between voiced and voiceless stop consonants.
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Studies on the formation of perceptually based basic-level categories in young infants.
Peter D. Eimas,Paul C. Quinn +1 more
TL;DR: It was found that categorical representations could be formed for horses that excluded cats, zebras, and giraffes, and for cats that excluded horses and tigers but not female lions.
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