The term "categorical perception" refers to the fact that we are
A) better at hearing some categories of sounds than we are at hearing other categories.
B) skillful both in identifying categories of sounds and in categorizing the physical characteristics of those sounds.
C) better at hearing the difference between sounds from different categories than we are at distinguishing sounds from the same category.
D) highly sensitive to variations within a category but less sensitive to the contrast between categories.
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