Now or ... later: Perceptual data are not immediately forgotten during language processing

作者:Bicknell Klinton*; Jaeger T Florian; Tanenhaus Michael K
来源:Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2016, 39: 23-24.
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X15000734

摘要

Christiansen & Chater (C&C) propose that language comprehenders must immediately compress perceptual data by "chunking" them into higher-level categories. Effective language understanding, however, requires maintaining perceptual information long enough to integrate it with downstream cues. Indeed, recent results suggest comprehenders do this. Although cognitive systems are undoubtedly limited, frameworks that do not take into account the tasks that these systems evolved to solve risk missing important insights.