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Event segmentation ability uniquely predicts event memory

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Sargent, Jesse Q., Zacks, Jeffrey M., Hambrick, David Z., Zacks, Rose T., Kurby, Christopher A., Bailey, Heather R., Eisenberg, Michelle L., Beck, Taylor M.·2013·Cognition

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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 meaningful units. This study examined the relationship between event segmentation and memory in a lifespan sample to answer the following question: Is the ability to segment activity into meaningful events a unique predictor of subsequent memory, or is the relationship between event perception and memory accounted for by general cognitive abilities? Two hundred and eight adults ranging from 20 to 79years old segmented movies of everyday events and attempted to remember the events afterwards. They also completed psychometric ability tests and tests measuring script knowledge for everyday events. Event segmentation and script knowledge both explained unique variance in event memory above and beyond the psychometric measures, and did so as strongly in older as in younger adults. These results suggest that event segmentation is a basic cognitive mechanism, important for memory across the lifespan.

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  • Long-term memory reflects event structure during encoding.

    “Behavioral experiments and mathematical models have argued that long-term memory reflects event structure during encoding (Ezzyat & Davachi, 2011; Gershman, Radulescu, Norman, & Niv, 2014; Sargent et al., 2013; Zacks, Tversky, et al., 2001)”

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  • Behavioral experiments have shown that long-term memory reflects event structure during encoding.

    “Behavioral experiments have shown that long-term memory reflects event structure during encoding (Ezzyat & Davachi, 2011; Sargent et al., 2013; Zacks, Tversky, et al., 2001).”

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Authors
Sargent, J. Q., Zacks, J. M., Hambrick, D. Z., Zacks, R. T., Kurby, C. A., Bailey, H. R., Eisenberg, M. L., & Beck, T. M.
Affiliations
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • Michigan State University (US)
  • Grand Valley State University (US)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
Sargent, Jesse Q.
Venue
Cognition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-11
Volume
129
Issue
2
Pages
241-255
ISSN
0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2103411340
Cited by
223
References
86
Citations by year
2026: 26 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
FWCI
2.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cognition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG031150)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
Keywords
event segmentation, event memory, daily life events, script knowledge, autobiographical memory, memory prediction, event perception
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Aging, Cognition, Female, Humans, Individuality, Male, Memory, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Memory, Episodic

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