Krøjgaard Peter
Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Department of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 9, Building 1350, DK-8000, Aarhus C., Denmark.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2017 Mar;51(1):29-38. doi: 10.1007/s12124-016-9363-5.
In a recent paper, Mammen (Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 50, 196-233, 2016a) brought novel arguments into the discussion concerning the importance of being able to single out and track objects through space and time. Mammen offered a formal account of two basic, yet distinct, ways in which we as human beings encounter objects in the real world, that is, sense and choice categories. In this paper I discuss aspects of his theory and in particular the Theorem of Correspondence. I shall attempt to argue that Mammen's formal account is indeed a novel and powerful analytical generic tool allowing us to see the important relevance in different domains of being able to establish choice categories. Meanwhile, I will attempt to show that evidence from the so-called multiple object tracking studies -- even though these use highly artificial stimuli -- provide compelling evidence in support of Mammen's formal account.