Wadle, Douglas and Bansal, Devansh and Wellwood, Alexis (2024) Temporal Shaping and the Event/Process Distinction. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

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Abstract

Studies of visual event individuation often consider people’s representations of activities involving agents performing com- plex tasks. Concomitantly, theories of event individuation em- phasize predictions about agents’ intentions. Studies that have examined simple, non-agential occurrences leave open the possiblity that principles of visual object individuation play a role in visual event individuation. Unearthing principles that may be sufficient for event individuation which are distinct both from predictions about agents’ intentions and from visual object individuation, we draw on and extend studies that reveal object and event representation to be deeply analogous in our cognitive economy. We provide evidence that ‘temporal shaping’ is a sufficient low-level perceptual criterion for the visual individuation of events. In our study, temporal shaping is effected by the introduction of pauses into an otherwise continuous process. Future studies should address other visual mechanisms for introducing temporal shaping (e.g., color changes).

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Wadle, Douglas C. 0000-0002-6713-2919 Bansal, Devansh Wellwood, Alexis 0000-0002-4258-3895
Keywords:	event individuation; object-event analogy; event semantics; mass/count distinction; plurality; boundedness
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Perception Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Douglas Wadle
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2024 12:04
Last Modified:	08 Oct 2024 12:04
Item ID:	24026
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Official URL:	https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gf6z35x
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Perception Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date:	2024
Volume:	46
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24026

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