Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x00004864
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发表时间：
1992-06
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Philipp Koehn
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作者：
Philipp Koehn
本章探讨了认知心理学与科幻小说的纠葛，但避免了后赛博朋克小说中熟悉的主题。认知心理学的起源可以追溯到乔治·米勒（George Miller）和诺姆·乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky）等人的基础著作，随后被乌尔里希·奈瑟（Ulrich Neisser）编纂成一个自我意识学派。杰克·芬尼的经典叙事《身体掠夺者》（The Body Snatchers，1955）借鉴了早期的原始认知主义话语，常常颇具说教性地主张，人类思维通常是一个有偏见、能力有限的信息处理器。通过这一心理学和政治论文，小说探索了可能的个人、政治和美学策略，这些策略可能将人类思想从刻板印象和盲点中解放出来。 《身体掠夺者》中令人不安的日常感知被伊恩·沃森 (Ian Watson) 的《嵌入》(1973)、塞缪尔·德拉尼 (Samuel Delany) 的《Babel-17》(1966) 和特德·姜 (Ted Jiang) 的《你一生的故事》(1998) 的语言新词系统地概括了，这些语言想象语言（和思想）从根本上构建了感知的现实。这些故事提出了关于终极现实的本质和可及性的更广泛的宇宙学问题——沃森的小说最终对认知主义的心灵模型提出了神秘的反击。
This chapter explores the entanglement of cognitive psychology with science fiction, but avoids familiar motifs from post-cyberpunk fiction. The beginnings of cognitive psychology are traced to the foundational work of figures such as George Miller and Noam Chomsky, subsequently codified into a self-conscious school by Ulrich Neisser. Jack Finney’s classic narrative, The Body Snatchers (1955), draws upon earlier proto-cognitivist discourses to contend, often quite didactically, that the human mind typically operates as a biased, limited capacity information processor. With this psychological and political thesis, the novel explores possible personal, political and aesthetic strategies that might free the human mind from its stereotypes and blind spots. The unsettling of everyday perception in The Body Snatchers is systematically generalized by the linguistic novums of Ian Watson’s The Embedding (1973), Samuel Delany’s Babel-17 (1966), and Ted Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’ (1998), which imagine that language (and thought) is fundamentally constructive of perceived reality. These stories ask broader, cosmological questions about the nature and accessibility of ultimate reality – with Watson’s novel ultimately proposing a mystical riposte to cognitivism’s model of the mind.