Events make up much of our lived experience, and the perceptual mechanisms that
represent events in experience have pervasive effects on action control, language use, and …

To make sense of the world around us, we must be able to segment a continual stream of
sensory inputs into discrete events. In this review, I propose that in order to comprehend …

This paper describes a framework for modeling human activities as temporally structured
processes. Our approach is motivated by the inherently hierarchical nature of human …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Although the stream of information we encounter is continuous, our experiences tend to be
discretized into meaningful clusters, altering how we represent our past. Event segmentation …

Memory for everyday events plays a central role in tasks of daily living, autobiographical
memory, and planning. Event memory depends in part on segmenting ongoing activity into …

When people observe everyday activity, they spontaneously parse it into discrete
meaningful events. Individuals who segment activity in a more normative fashion show …

Events—the experiences we think we are having and recall having had—are constructed;
they are not what actually occurs. What occurs is ongoing dynamic, multidimensional …

We selected 24 Hollywood movies released from 1940 through 2010 to serve as a film
corpus. Eight viewers, three per film, parsed them into events, which are best termed …

That younger individuals perceive the world as moving slower than adults is a familiar
phenomenon. Yet, it remains an open question why that is. Using event segmentation …