Department of Psychology, Northumbria University.
Top Cogn Sci. 2014 Jul;6(3):442-60. doi: 10.1111/tops.12024. Epub 2013 Apr 24.
TEST is a novel taxonomy of knowledge representations based on three distinct hierarchically organized representational features: Tropism, Embodiment, and Situatedness. Tropic representational features reflect constraints of the physical world on the agent's ability to form, reactivate, and enrich embodied (i.e., resulting from the agent's bodily constraints) conceptual representations embedded in situated contexts. The proposed hierarchy entails that representations can, in principle, have tropic features without necessarily having situated and/or embodied features. On the other hand, representations that are situated and/or embodied are likely to be simultaneously tropic. Hence, although we propose tropism as the most general term, the hierarchical relationship between embodiment and situatedness is more on a par, such that the dominance of one component over the other relies on the distinction between offline storage versus online generation as well as on representation-specific properties.
TEST 是一种基于三个不同的层次化表示特征的知识表示分类法：趋向性、具身性和情境性。趋向性表示特征反映了物理世界对主体形成、重新激活和丰富情境化（即源自主体身体约束）概念表示的能力的约束。所提出的层次结构意味着表示原则上可以具有趋向性特征，而不一定具有情境性和/或具身性特征。另一方面，情境化和/或具身性的表示更有可能同时具有趋向性。因此，虽然我们提出趋向性作为最一般的术语，但具身性和情境性之间的层次关系更为平等，以至于一个组件相对于另一个组件的优势取决于离线存储与在线生成之间的区别以及表示特定的属性。
