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A unified connectionist model of the perceptual magnet effect (the perceptual warping of vowels) is proposed, and relies on the concept of population coding in neural maps. Unlike what has been often stated, we claim that the imprecision of the classical “sum of vectors” coding/decoding scheme is not a drawback and can account for psychological observations. Furthermore, we show that coupling these neural maps allows the formation of vowel systems, which are shared symbolic systems, from initially continuous and uniform perception and production. This has important consequences for existing theories of phonetics.
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Oudeyer, Py. (2001). Coupled Neural Maps for the Origins of Vowel Systems. In: Dorffner, G., Bischof, H., Hornik, K. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 2001. ICANN 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44668-0_163
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