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Ch 11. Event Cognition

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Summary of Event Cognition

• Event Cognition is Fundamental and Pervasive

– Perception, Language, Memory, Reasoning and Decision- making

• Event Cognition has a Long Past

– Gunnar Johansson: work on biological motion – James J. Gibson, ecological psychology – Darren Newtson: work on event segmentation – Sahcs: work on sentence memory – Chomsky: transformational grammar – Maier: work on problem-solving

Application on Education

• Many educational situations require teachers to convey

to students information about events

• Structuring the presentation in terms of spatiotemporal

frameworks of event cognition may produce better learning

Application on Virtual Environments

• Event cognition provides a means of

understanding how we experience the continuous flow of experience in virtual environments as real

• Few principles

– Environmental details near event boundaries are likely to be better remembered – Increasing the number of event boundaries can be improve later memory – Information that was acquired outside of the current event will be less easily accessed in memory

Application on Forecasting

• By “forecasting,” we mean the prediction or

expectation of about how events will unfold in the future

• Knowledge on event cognition makes better

prediction on future