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

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

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 and remembering events cross-linguistically: Evidence from dual-task paradigms

0749-596X/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.02.006 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.C. What role does language play during attention allocation in perceiving and remembering events? We recorded adults’ eye movements as they studied animated motion events for a later recognition task. We compared native speakers of two languages that u...

Prestimulus Alpha Oscillations and the Temporal Sequencing of Audiovisual Events

Perceiving the temporal order of sensory events typically depends on participants' attentional state, thus likely on the endogenous fluctuations of brain activity. Using magnetoencephalography, we sought to determine whether spontaneous brain oscillations could disambiguate the perceived order of auditory and visual events presented in close temporal proximity, that is, at the individual's perc...

The Role of Overlap and End State in Perceiving and Remembering Events

This work investigates how we organize complex, multiple and overlapping events. Two hypotheses have been proposed in investigating the cognitive principles that potentially constrain how humans construct event temporal relations. The end state bias hypothesis focuses on the end points of events. The overlap hypothesis focuses on whether events overlap or not in time. Participants viewed animat...