People make sense of continuous streams of observed behavior in part by segmenting them
into events. Event segmentation seems to be an ongoing component of everyday …

One way to understand something is to break it up into parts. New research indicates that
segmenting ongoing activity into meaningful events is a core component of perception and …

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 …

People tend to perceive ongoing continuous activity as series of discrete events. This
partitioning of continuous activity may occur, in part, because events correspond to dynamic …

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

To remember everyday activity it is important to encode it effectively, and one important
component of everyday activity is that it consists of events. People who segment activity 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 …

People perceive and conceive of activity in terms of discrete events. Here the authors
propose a theory according to which the perception of boundaries between events arises …

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 …

Mental representations of everyday experience are rich, structured, and multimodal. In this
article we consider the adaptive pressures that led to human construction of such …