视觉处理转移视觉事件的理解
Uğurcan Vurgun1, Yue Ji2, Anna Papafragou1
1Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.
Cognitive science
|June 26, 2024
概括
语言框架影响我们如何感知事件时间表. 处理描述已完成的动作 (telic) 和正在进行的动作 (atelic) 的句子改变了我们对事件结构的非语言理解,证明了语言的结构.
科学领域:
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 之前的研究表明,编码事件的时间概况的语言方面的区别,影响非语言事件表示.
- 语言与事件认知之间的关系,特别是语言框架如何影响时间结构的感知,仍然是活跃的研究领域.
研究的目的:
- 调查是否处理telic与atelic句子直接影响时间事件结构的非语言构造.
- 测试这样的假设,即语言的现实性可以塑造视觉事件的感知,影响它们的解释,有或没有不同的时间阶段和终点.
主要方法:
- 在两个实验中使用了一种新的视觉检测任务.
- 参与者处理了描述事件的telic或atelic句子.
- 随后,他们对相同视觉刺激的感知被评估,以确定语言框架如何影响他们对事件时间结构的构建.
主要成果:
- 处理telic句子导致参与者构建视觉事件有明显的时间阶段和一个明确的终点.
- 处理 atelic 句子导致参与者解释相同的视觉事件,因为缺乏这种结构化的时间进展.
- 句子的语言方面显著改变了对相同视觉刺激的时间解释.
结论:
- 事件构造不是固定的,而是可形的表示.
- 这些表示可以动态地与为事件提供的语言框架保持一致.
- 语言在塑造我们对时间和事件的基本认知表征方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
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