Egeth Howard E, Leonard Carly J, Leber Andrew B
Johns Hopkins University, United States.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2010 Oct;135(2):130-2; discussion 133-9. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.05.012. Epub 2010 Jun 26.
The target article represents a distillation of nearly 20 years of work dedicated to the analysis of visual selection. Throughout these years, Jan Theeuwes and his colleagues have been enormously productive in their development of a particular view of visual selection, one that emphasizes the role of bottom-up processes. This work has been very influential, as there is substantial merit to many aspects of this research. However, this endeavor has also been provocative—the reaction to this work has resulted in a large body of research that emphasizes the role of top-down processes. Here we highlight recent work not covered in Theeuwes’s review and discuss how this literature may not be compatible with Theeuwes’s theoretical perspective. In our view this ongoing debate has been one of the most interesting and productive in the field. One can only hope that in time the ultimate result will be a complete understanding of how visual selection actually works.
目标文章是近20年致力于视觉选择分析工作的精华总结。在这些年里，扬·西厄韦斯和他的同事们在发展一种特定的视觉选择观点方面成果丰硕，这种观点强调自下而上过程的作用。这项工作极具影响力，因为该研究的许多方面都有很大价值。然而，这项努力也颇具争议性——对这项工作的反应引发了大量强调自上而下过程作用的研究。在此，我们着重介绍西厄韦斯综述中未涵盖的近期研究，并讨论这些文献如何可能与西厄韦斯的理论观点不相容。在我们看来，这场持续的争论一直是该领域最有趣且最有成效的争论之一。人们只能希望最终能全面理解视觉选择的实际运作方式。
