A dedicated mental resource for intuitive physics

Alex Mitko

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108607

2024-01-01

DOI：10.1016/j.isci.2023.108607

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Countless decisions and actions in daily life draw on a mental model of the physical structure and dynamics of the world - from stepping carefully around a patch of slippery pavement to stacking delicate produce in a shopping basket. People can make fast and accurate inferences about how physical interactions will unfold, but it remains unclear whether we do so by applying a general set of physical principles across scenarios, or instead by reasoning about the physics of individual scenarios in an ad-hoc fashion. Here, we hypothesized that humans possess a dedicated and flexible mental resource for physical inference, and we tested for such a resource using a battery of fine-tuned tasks to capture individual differences in performance. Despite varying scene contents across tasks, we found that performance was highly correlated among them and well-explained by a unitary intuitive physics resource, distinct from other facets of cognition such as spatial reasoning and working memory.

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WORKING-MEMORY

5-MONTH-OLD INFANTS

VISUAL-PERCEPTION

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MASS

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Johns Hopkins University

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