Abstract：
Perception involves the processing of content or information about the world. In what form is this content represented? I argue that perception is widely compositional. The perceptual system represents many stimulus features (including shape, orientation, and motion) in terms of combinations of other features (such as shape parts, slant and tilt, common and residual motion vectors). But compositionality can take a variety of forms. The ways in which perceptual representations compose are markedly different from the ways in which sentences or thoughts are thought to be composed. I suggest that the thesis that perception is compositional is not itself a concrete hypothesis with specific predictions; rather it affords a productive framework for developing and evaluating specific empirical hypotheses about the form and content of perceptual representations. The question is not just whether perception is compositional, but how. Answering this latter question can provide fundamental insights into perception. This article is categorized under: Philosophy > Representation Philosophy > Foundations of Cognitive Science Psychology > Perception and Psychophysics.
摘要：
感知涉及对有关世界的内容或信息的处理。这种内容以什么形式表示？我认为感知是广泛的组成。感知系统代表许多刺激特征(包括形状，定位,和运动)就其他特征(如形状部分、倾斜和倾斜，公共和残差运动矢量)。但是组合性可以采取多种形式。感性表征的构成方式与句子或思想的构成方式明显不同。我认为，感知是构成的论点本身并不是具有特定预测的具体假设；相反，它为开发和评估有关感知表示的形式和内容的特定经验假设提供了一个富有成效的框架。问题不仅仅是感知是否构成，但如何。回答后一个问题可以提供对感知的基本见解。本文分为：哲学>表征哲学>认知科学心理学的基础>感知与心理物理学。
