Perceiving and Remembering Routine Action: Fundamental Micro-Level Origins

Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events.

How do people perceive routine events, such as making a bed, as these events unfold in time? Research on knowledge structures suggests that people conceive of events as goal-directed partonomic hierarchies. Here, participants segmented videos of events into coarse and fine units on separate viewings; some described the activity of each unit as well. Both segmentation and descriptions support th...

PERCEIVING EVENTS 1 Running head: PERCEIVING STRUCTURE IN EVENTS Perceiving, Remembering and Communicating Structure in Events

How do people perceive routine events such as making a bed as they unfold in time? Research on knowledge structures suggests that people conceive of events as goal-directed partonomic hierarchies. Here, participants segmented videos of events into coarse and fine units on separate viewings; some described the activity of each unit as well. Both segmentation and descriptions support the hierarch...

Running Head: Perceiving and Remembering Events Cross-Linguistically Perceiving and remembering events cross-linguistically: Evidence from dual-task paradigms

6 Representing , perceiving and remembering the shape of visual space

Humans constantly engage in automatic and rapid analysis of spatial scene structure when navigating an environment or searching for objects. This chapter draws on current research from computational, behavioral and neuroscience perspectives aimed at understanding how the human brain perceives, represents, and remembers the shape of space. Space can be described with both structural descriptions...

Genes for emotion-enhanced remembering are linked to enhanced perceiving.

Emotionally enhanced memory and susceptibility to intrusive memories after trauma have been linked to a deletion variant (i.e., a form of a gene in which certain amino acids are missing) of ADRA2B, the gene encoding subtype B of the α2-adrenergic receptor, which influences norepinephrine activity. We examined in 207 participants whether variations in this gene are responsible for individual dif...