Events

*Morning Session: 10:30am-12:30pm Uris 326

*Afternoon Session: 1:30pm-3:30pm Uris 142

This seminar features work by six psychology and neuroscience researchers studying the cognitive process of event segmentation: how we break up the continuous experiences of our lives into separate events that we can understand and remember. Through talks and panel discussions, we will discuss recent advances in understanding how event memories are constructed and the causes and consequences of generating event boundaries. These studies make use of a wide range of experimental paradigms, ranging from highly-controlled sequences of objects to meaningful experiences like stories, movies, and music, and we will examine how we can connect and reconcile the findings from these differing approaches.