Regier T, Carlson L A
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Green 414, 5848 South University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2001 Jun;130(2):273-98. doi: 10.1037//0096-3445.130.2.273.
The present paper grounds the linguistic cdategorization of space in aspects of visual perception; specifically, the structure of projective spatial terms such as above are grounded in the process of attention and in vector-sum coding of overall direction. This is formalized in the attentional vector-sum (AVS) model. This computational model accurately predicts linguistic acceptability judgments for spatial terms, under a variety of spatial configurations. In 7 experiments, the predictions of the AVS model are tested against those of 3 competing models. The results support the AVS model and disconfirm its competitors. The authors conclude that the structure of linguistic spatial categories can be partially explained in terms of independently motivated perceptual processes.
本文将空间的语言分类建立在视觉感知的各个方面；具体而言，诸如“above”（在……之上）等投射空间术语的结构基于注意力过程以及整体方向的矢量和编码。这在注意力矢量和（AVS）模型中得到了形式化。该计算模型在各种空间配置下准确预测了空间术语的语言可接受性判断。在7个实验中，将AVS模型的预测与3个竞争模型的预测进行了测试。结果支持了AVS模型并否定了其竞争对手。作者得出结论，语言空间类别的结构可以部分地根据具有独立动机的感知过程来解释。
