Processing Mechanisms of Object Persistence
客体连续性的加工机制

Object persistence refers to the phenomena that an individual encountered at present is the same as the individual encountered earlier. There are several accounts of such object persistence in the literature: similarity theory, spatiotemporal theory, sortal theory, and causal theory. Some issues as to spatiotemporal persistence and surface cues together with sortal and causal persistence are discussed. Future researches should focus on the establishment of the experimental paradigm of similarity, sortal, ca...