Event representation at the scale of ordinary experience.

Autor: Yousif SR; University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology, United States of America. Electronic address: sryousif@sas.upenn.edu., Lee SH; University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics, United States of America., Sherman BE; University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology, United States of America., Papafragou A; University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cognition [Cognition] 2024 Aug; Vol. 249, pp. 105833. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 03.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105833
Abstrakt: Weeks are divided into weekdays and weekends; years into semesters and seasons; lives into stages like childhood, adulthood, and adolescence. How does the structure of experience shape memory? Though much work has examined event representation in human cognition, little work has explored event representation at the scale of ordinary experience. Here, we use shared experiences - in the form of popular television shows - to explore how memories are shaped by event structure at a large scale. We find that memories for events in these shows exhibit several hallmarks of event cognition. Namely, we find that memories are organized with respect to their event structure (boundaries), and that beginnings and endings are better remembered at multiple levels of the event hierarchy simultaneously. These patterns seem to be partially, but not fully, explained by the perceived story-relevance of events. Lastly, using a longitudinal design, we also show how event representations evolve over periods of several months. These results offer an understanding of event cognition at the scale of ordinary human lives.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest None.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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