Event segmentation during first-person continuous events

Magliano, Joseph P.; Radvansky, Gabriel A.; Forsythe, Jeremy; Copeland, David E.

doi:10.1080/20445911.2014.930042

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“…SPECT does not account for visual narrative experience in which the viewer is also an active participant, such as video game and virtual reality experiences. Given that first‐person experiences are processed in similar fashion to narrative experiences (Magliano, Radvansky, Forsythe, & Copeland, ), SPECT should be able to accommodate these experiences. However, the fact that one is an active agent in many of these contexts will obviously have implications for attentional selection.…”

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The Scene Perception & Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT) Applied to Visual Narratives

Loschky

Larson

Smith

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Topics in Cognitive Science

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Understanding how people comprehend visual narratives (including picture stories, comics, and film) requires the combination of traditionally separate theories that span the initial sensory and perceptual processing of complex visual scenes, the perception of events over time, and comprehension of narratives. Existing piecemeal approaches fail to capture the interplay between these levels of processing. Here, we propose the Scene Perception & Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT), as applied to visual narratives, which distinguishes between front‐end and back‐end cognitive processes. Front‐end processes occur during single eye fixations and are comprised of attentional selection and information extraction. Back‐end processes occur across multiple fixations and support the construction of event models, which reflect understanding of what is happening now in a narrative (stored in working memory) and over the course of the entire narrative (stored in long‐term episodic memory). We describe relationships between front‐ and back‐end processes, and medium‐specific differences that likely produce variation in front‐end and back‐end processes across media (e.g., picture stories vs. film). We describe several novel research questions derived from SPECT that we have explored. By addressing these questions, we provide greater insight into how attention, information extraction, and event model processes are dynamically coordinated to perceive and understand complex naturalistic visual events in narratives and the real world.

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The Scene Perception & Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT) Applied to Visual Narratives

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Larson

Smith

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Topics in Cognitive Science

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“…As a result, the current event model is updated and this is experienced as an event boundary [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. This can be revealed by explicitly asking people to indicate the boundaries between events during comprehension [15, 16]; this has been done for videos of everyday activities [17, 18], dance movements [19] and visual and written narratives [20, 21]. Event boundary identification is partially determined by conceptually driven factors, such as comprehenders’ current interests and attention [20], action predictability [21], and default expectations [22].…”

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Event boundaries in memory and cognition

Radvansky

Zacks

2017

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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Research on event cognition is rapidly developing and is revealing fundamental aspects of human cognition. In this paper, we review recent and current work that is driving this field forward. We first outline the Event Horizon Model, which broadly describes the impact of event boundaries on cognition and memory. Then, we address recent work on event segmentation, the role of event cognition in working memory and long-term memory, including event model updating, and long term retention. Throughout we also consider how event cognition varies across individuals and groups of people and consider the neural mechanisms involved.

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“…A hint of this kind of agnosticism to medium was seen in work described above, where mental maps are similar whether constructed from survey or route descriptions (Taylor & Tversky, 1992). Other work has compared models derived from text, movies, pictures, or even video games (Gernsbacher, Varner, & Faust, 1990;Magliano, Miller, & Zwaan, 2001;Magliano, Radvansky, Forsythe, & Copeland, 2014;Radvansky & Copeland, 2006), and found that such models exhibit similar properties. Similarly, manipulations affect cognition in similar ways across text reading and video representation, and such convergence across media that bear few surface similarities (e.g.…”

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Fiction as Autobiography

Yang¹

2018

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Fiction is a pervasive human activity, consuming large parts of people’s day to day lives. In the present paper prepared for my qualifying exam, I delineate the set of understudied phenomena that is memory for events which occurred in works of narrative fiction. I synthesize literature showing that memories of the world and narrative are captured by mental models, which are neutral with regard their mode of construction. Moreover, such memories of narratives are relatively insensitive to the issue of fictionality, such that we apply the same cognitive processes regardless of whether events are framed as fictional or not. Based on this evidence, I argue that memories of fiction are of the same fundamental type or natural kind as autobiographical memories, exhibiting similar properties, functions, and downstream effects. Possible differences between memories of fiction and personal memories are discussed. Subsequent revisions are planned for submission as a review paper. I am grateful to my thesis committee for their encouragement and feedback: David C. Rubin, Mark R. Leary, Felipe De Brigard, and Elizabeth J. Marsh.

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Event segmentation during first-person continuous events

Cited by 28 publications

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The Scene Perception & Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT) Applied to Visual Narratives

The Scene Perception & Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT) Applied to Visual Narratives

Event boundaries in memory and cognition

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