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 …

We effortlessly recognize all sorts of events--from simple events like people walking to
complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Events can be understood in terms of their temporal structure. The authors first draw on
several bodies of research to construct an analysis of how people use event structure in …

Our knowledge of events and situations in the world plays a critical role in our ability to
understand what is happening around us, to predict what might happen next, and to …

The stream of action in life, virtual environments, film, and narratives is parsed into events.
This parsing has consequences for memory. The transition from one event to another can …

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 …

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 …