Event Segmentation
- 1 April 2007
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Vol. 16 (2), 80-84
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00480.x
Abstract
One way to understand something is to break it up into parts. New research indicates that segmenting ongoing activity into meaningful events is a core component of perception and that this has consequences for memory and learning. Behavioral and neuroimaging data suggest that event segmentation is automatic and that people spontaneously segment activity into hierarchically organized parts and subparts. This segmentation depends on the bottom-up processing of sensory features such as movement and on the top-down processing of conceptual features such as actors' goals. How people segment activity affects what they remember later; as a result, those who identify appropriate event boundaries during perception tend to remember more and to learn more proficiently.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Human Brain Activity Time-Locked to Narrative Event BoundariesPsychological Science, 2007
- Event perception: A mind-brain perspective.Psychological Bulletin, 2007
- Event understanding and memory in healthy aging and dementia of the Alzheimer type.Psychology and Aging, 2006
- Visual motion and the neural correlates of event perceptionBrain Research, 2006
- Perspective taking promotes action understanding and learning.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
- Using movement and intentions to understand simple eventsCognitive Science, 2004
- Activation of human motion processing areas during event perceptionCognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2003
- Infants Parse Dynamic ActionChild Development, 2001
- Event structure in perception and conception.Psychological Bulletin, 2001
- Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding.Psychological Review, 1987