Integrative Information Process in Semantic Processing

通过一系列的实验来研究以下两个问题：视觉图像和人体动作的文字表征是如何合成的，以及它们是否来自认知系统中的同一个种子？观察结果表明，相邻的姿态顺序提出有约束力，即使他们是没有姿态间的信息。此外，良好的观察者表现出更高的区分比差的观察者在困难的条件下，相邻的姿势具有较低的约束力。此外，在姿势命名任务中，好的观察者对独特的姿势表现出整体性-图像性的言语编码，而差的观察者则表现出分析性-描述性的言语编码。这些结果表明，视觉和言语的编码方式是相互作用的，可能源于认知系统中的一个共同种子。

A series of experiments were conducted to examine the following two questions : How are visual image and word representations of human body motions synthesized, and whether they are born from a same seed in cognitive system? The observations suggest that the neighboring postures sequentially presented have binding force even if they are presented without inter-posture information. Further, the good observers showed higher discriminability than the poor observers in a difficult condition that the neighboring postures have lower binding force. Further, the good observer showed holistic-iconic verbal encoding to distinctive postures in the posture-naming task, while the poor observers showed the analytic-descriptive verbal encoding. These results suggest that the ways of visual and verbal encoding are interactively and may be derived from a common seed in cognitive system.