{"pk":29195,"title":"Boundedness in event and object cognition","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The semantic property of boundedness characterizes the presence of well-defined spatio-temporal boundaries for eventsor objects in language (Bach, 1986; Frawly, 1992; Jackendoff, 1991). Little research has tested whether this propertyactually characterizes event and object cognition (but see Wellwood, Hespos, & Rips, 2018). We showed participantsvideos of bounded events where a salient change in state of the affected object(s) occurred (e.g., dressing a teddy bear)and unbounded events that lacked a salient change (e.g., waving a handkerchief). Participants decided whether a videomatched with a picture of a single novel object or a picture of a novel substance (object/substance pictures were adoptedfrom Li, Dunham, & Carey, (2009)). Participants tended to pair a bounded event with an object and an unbounded eventwith a substance, and were in fact better at establishing the former connection. We conclude that boundedness underliesthe cognitive representation of both events and objects.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z2229wp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yue","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ji","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Delaware","department":""},{"first_name":"Anna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Papafragou","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Delaware","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29195/galley/19066/download/"}]}