Jackendoff Ray
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, 115 Miner Hall, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Perception. 2012;41(9):1128-52. doi: 10.1068/p7271.
David Marr's metatheory emphasized the importance of what he called the computational level of description--an analysis of the task the visual system performs. In the present article I argue that this task should be conceived of not just as object recognition but as spatial understanding, and that the mental representations responsible for spatial understanding are not exclusively visual in nature. In particular, a theory of the visual system must interact with a theory of the language faculty to explain how we talk about what we see--and how we see all the things we talk about as though they are part of the perceived world. An examination of spatial language both raises the bar for theories of vision and provides important hints for how spatial understanding is structured.
大卫·马尔的元理论强调了他所谓的计算描述层次的重要性——即对视觉系统执行的任务进行分析。在本文中，我认为这项任务不应仅仅被视为物体识别，而应被视为空间理解，并且负责空间理解的心理表征本质上并非完全是视觉的。特别是，视觉系统理论必须与语言官能理论相互作用，以解释我们如何谈论我们所看到的事物——以及我们如何将我们谈论的所有事物都视为仿佛它们是感知世界的一部分。对空间语言的考察既提高了视觉理论的标准，也为空间理解的结构提供了重要线索。
