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 …

Our daily experiences unfold continuously, but we remember them as a series of discrete
events through a process called event segmentation. Prominent theories of event …

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 …

Experiences are stored in the mind as discrete mental units, or 'events,'which influence—
and are influenced by—attention, learning, and memory. In this way, the notion of an …

The structure of events can influence later memory for information that is embedded in them,
with evidence indicating that event boundaries can both impair and enhance memory. The …

Highlights•Contextual change parses ongoing experience into episodic memories.•
Mechanisms supporting temporal memory differ within and across events.•Within events …

People segregate continuously unfolding experiences into discrete events in memory. This
process, known as event segmentation, results in better memory for the temporal order of …

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 …

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 …

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 …