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Event Perception, Gabriel A. Radvansky, Jeffrey M. Zacks
Event Perception, Gabriel A. Radvansky, Jeffrey M. Zacks
Psychological & Brain Sciences Faculty Publications
Events are central elements of human experience. Formally, they can be individuated in terms of the entities that compose them, the features of those entities, and the relations amongst entities. Psychologically, representations of events capture their spatiotemporal location, the people and objects involved, and the relations between these elements. Here, we present an account of the nature of psychological representations of events and how they are constructed and updated. Event representations are like images in that they are isomorphic to the situations they represent. However, they are like models or language in that they are constructed of components rather than …