A world of things and stuff

Susan Hespos; Antonia Götz; Tijl Grootswagers

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2025.09.019

A world of things and stuff

Susan Hespos, Antonia Götz, Tijl Grootswagers

MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

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Abstract

It appears simple that every entity in our perceptual array is a thing (object) or stuff (substance). Yet, a recent article by Paulun and colleagues reveals that there are many puzzles to be solved about how we perform this seemingly simple perception.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1071-1072
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	29
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.09.019
Publication status	Published - Dec 2025

Keywords

converging evidence
neuroscience
objects
substances
vision

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