Highlights•Event elements changes are event boundaries, thus creating new event
models.•Information beyond the current event model is less available.•Long-term memory is …

Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies
language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual …

During realistic, continuous perception, humans automatically segment experiences into
discrete events. Using a novel model of cortical event dynamics, we investigate how cortical …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Humans spontaneously organize a continuous experience into discrete events and use the
learned structure of these events to generalize and organize memory. We introduce the …

Although we perceive the world in a continuous manner, our experience is partitioned into
discrete events. However, to make sense of these events, they must be stitched together into …

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 …

What psychological mechanisms enable people to reappraise a situation to change its
emotional impact? We propose that reappraisal works by shifting appraisal outcomes …

When we remember events, we often do not only recall individual events, but also the
connections between them. However, extant research has focused on how humans segment …