York University, Canada.
Glendon College, Canada.
Perception. 2021 Mar;50(3):195-215. doi: 10.1177/0301006621991491. Epub 2021 Feb 14.
The descriptions of surfaces, objects, and events computed by visual processes are not solely for consumption in the visual system but are meant to be passed on to other brain centers. Clearly, the description of the visual scene cannot be sent in its entirety, like a picture or movie, to other centers, as that would require that each of them have their own visual system to decode the description. Some very compressed, annotated, or labeled version must be constructed that can be passed on in a format that other centers-memory, language, planning-can understand. If this is a "visual language," what is its grammar? In a first pass, we see, among other things, differences in processing of visual "nouns," visual "verbs," and visual "prepositions." Then we look at recursion and errors of visual grammar. Finally, the possibility of a visual language also raises the question of the acquisition of its grammar from the visual environment and the chance that this acquisition process was borrowed and adapted for spoken language.
视觉过程所计算出的表面、物体和事件的描述，不仅是为了在视觉系统中使用，还旨在传递给其他大脑中枢。显然，不能像发送图片或电影那样将整个视觉场景的描述发送到其他中枢，因为这需要每个中枢都有自己的视觉系统来解码描述。必须构建某种非常压缩、注释或标记的版本，以便以其他中枢（记忆、语言、规划）能够理解的格式进行传递。如果这是一种“视觉语言”，那么它的语法是什么？首先，我们可以看到，除其他外，视觉“名词”、视觉“动词”和视觉“介词”的处理方式存在差异。然后，我们研究递归和视觉语法错误。最后，视觉语言的可能性也提出了从视觉环境中获取其语法的问题，以及这种获取过程是否被借用并适应于口语的问题。
