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- Events themselves are segmented into parts: buying a ticket, finding a seat, viewing the movie. A variety of cognitive and perceptual features converge at event boundaries; they are instants of relatively greater change in action, they are moments when goals and subgoals are accomplished, they are times when predictability breaks down.
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Jul 5, 2023 · The notion that experience is subdivided into events has become a foundational idea in cognitive science. It offers a way of describing how mental representations of experience (which are often discrete) differ from reality (which is often more continuous).
Oct 1, 2017 · Events are at the center of human experience, and event cognition is the study of how people perceive, conceive, talk about, and remember them [1••]. A current focus of interest is how cognitive systems form and update representations of events, namely event models.
- Gabriel A Radvansky, Jeffrey M Zacks
- 2017
Here’s a rough definition that is pretty close: “a segment of time at a given location that is conceived by an observer to have a beginning and an end” (J. M. Zacks & Tversky, 2001). Events are one of the most important classes of entities in our everyday psychology.
Events are at the center of human experience, and event cognition is the study of how people perceive, conceive, talk about, and remember them [1]. A current focus of interest is how cognitive systems form and update representations of events, namely event models.
- Gabriel A Radvansky, Jeffrey M Zacks
- 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.08.006
- 2017
- 2017/10
Events are the stuff of our everyday lives, and their shape is the shape of our conscious experience. From perception to memory to judgment to the control of action, events are major volumes in our library of mental representation. Many features of event cognition reflect broader principles of perception and cognition.
Nov 16, 2023 · Cognitive psychology is the field of psychology dedicated to examining how people think. It attempts to explain how and why we think the way we do by studying the interactions among human thinking, emotion, creativity, language, and problem solving, in addition to other cognitive processes. Cognitive psychologists strive to determine and ...
Nov 6, 2019 · According to Elman (2009), an event is defined by the “set of participants, activities, and outcomes that are bound together by causal interrelatedness” (p. 572). In this view, the event participants and the relational structure that binds them are crucial for event representation.
