Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, Netherlands ; International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2013 Aug 16;4:528. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00528. eCollection 2013.
Language-mediated visual attention describes the interaction of two fundamental components of the human cognitive system, language and vision. Within this paper we present an amodal shared resource model of language-mediated visual attention that offers a description of the information and processes involved in this complex multimodal behavior and a potential explanation for how this ability is acquired. We demonstrate that the model is not only sufficient to account for the experimental effects of Visual World Paradigm studies but also that these effects are emergent properties of the architecture of the model itself, rather than requiring separate information processing channels or modular processing systems. The model provides an explicit description of the connection between the modality-specific input from language and vision and the distribution of eye gaze in language-mediated visual attention. The paper concludes by discussing future applications for the model, specifically its potential for investigating the factors driving observed individual differences in language-mediated eye gaze.
语言介导的视觉注意描述了人类认知系统的两个基本组成部分，语言和视觉之间的相互作用。在本文中，我们提出了一种语言介导的视觉注意的无模态共享资源模型，该模型提供了对涉及这种复杂多模态行为的信息和过程的描述，并为这种能力是如何获得的提供了潜在的解释。我们证明，该模型不仅足以解释视觉世界范式研究的实验效应，而且这些效应是模型本身结构的突现属性，而不需要单独的信息处理通道或模块化处理系统。该模型提供了语言和视觉的模态特定输入与语言介导的视觉注意中的眼球注视分布之间的连接的明确描述。本文最后讨论了该模型的未来应用，特别是其在研究驱动语言介导的眼球注视的观察到的个体差异的因素方面的潜在应用。
