Myachykov Andriy, Chapman Ashley J, Fischer Martin H
Department of Psychology, Northumbria UniversityNewcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, National Research University Higher School of EconomicsMoscow, Russia.
Department of Psychology, Northumbria University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Front Psychol. 2017 Jan 4;7:2028. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02028. eCollection 2016.
A crucial question facing cognitive science concerns the nature of conceptual representations as well as the constraints on the interactions between them. One specific question we address in this paper is what makes cross-representational interplay possible? We offer two distinct theoretical scenarios: according to the first scenario, co-activated knowledge representations interact with the help of an interface established between them via congruent activation in a mediating third-party general cognitive mechanism, e.g., attention. According to the second scenario, co-activated knowledge representations interact due to an overlap between their features, for example when they share a magnitude component. First, we make a case for cross-representational interplay based on grounded and situated theories of cognition. Second, we discuss interface-based interactions between distinct (i.e., non-overlapping) knowledge representations. Third, we discuss how co-activated representations may share their architecture via partial overlap. Finally, we outline constraints regarding the flexibility of these proposed mechanisms.
认知科学面临的一个关键问题涉及概念表征的本质以及它们之间相互作用的限制。我们在本文中探讨的一个具体问题是，是什么使得跨表征的相互作用成为可能？我们提供了两种不同的理论设想：根据第一种设想，共同激活的知识表征通过在中介第三方一般认知机制（如注意力）中通过一致激活在它们之间建立的接口进行相互作用。根据第二种设想，共同激活的知识表征由于其特征之间的重叠而相互作用，例如当它们共享一个量级成分时。首先，我们基于认知的具身和情境理论为跨表征的相互作用提供依据。其次，我们讨论不同（即非重叠）知识表征之间基于接口的相互作用。第三，我们讨论共同激活的表征如何通过部分重叠共享其架构。最后，我们概述了关于这些提出的机制灵活性的限制。
