Research on higher-level thought has revealed many principles of reasoning and decision- making but has rarely made contact with how we perceive the world in the first place. Here …
We experience the world in terms of both (continuous) time and (discrete) events, but time seems especially primitive—since we cannot perceive events without an underlying …
The raw material of perception is a continuous wash of light and sound. But what we perceive are often discrete individuals—objects (due to segmentation in space) and events …