The physical world provides humans with continuous streams of experience in both space and time. The human mind, however, can parse and organize this continuous input into discrete, individual units. In the current work, we characterize the representational signatures of basic units of human experience across the spatial (object) and temporal (event) domains. We propose that there are three shared, abstract signatures of individuation underlying the basic units of representation across the two domains. Specifically, individuated entities in both the spatial domain (objects) and temporal domain (bounded events) resist restructuring, have distinct parts, and do not tolerate breaks; unindividuated entities in both the spatial domain (substances) and the temporal domain (unbounded events) lack these features. In three experiments, we confirm these principles and discuss their significance for cognitive and linguistic theories of objects and events. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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跨物体和事件的个性化特征。


物理世界为人类提供了空间和时间上连续的经验流。然而，人类大脑可以解析这种连续输入并将其组织成离散的单独单元。在当前的工作中，我们描述了跨空间（对象）和时间（事件）域的人类经验基本单位的表征特征。我们提出，在这两个领域的基本表示单位的基础上存在三个共享的、抽象的个性特征。具体来说，空间域（对象）和时间域（有界事件）中的个体实体都抵制重组，具有不同的部分，并且不能容忍中断；空间域（物质）和时间域（无界事件）中的非个性化实体缺乏这些特征。在三个实验中，我们确认了这些原理并讨论了它们对于对象和事件的认知和语言理论的意义。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。