Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events.

By Jeffrey M. Zacks, Barbara Tversky, Gowri K. Iyer. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2001

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Segmentation in the perception and memory of events. (2008, background): “If coarse-grained events subsume a group of finer-grained events, it would be expected that each coarse event boundary would fall slightly later in time than the fine event boundary to which it is closest. That is exactly what is observed [ 26 ].”
Animation: can it facilitate? (2002, background): “Even when actual motion is smooth and continuous, people may conceive of it as composed of discrete steps [e.g. Hegarty, 1992; Zacks et al., 2001; but see Schwartz (1999) and Schwartz & Black (1996) for evidence that for atomic substeps that are analog in nature, such as the turning of gears,…”
The Self and Autobiographical Memory: Correspondence and Coherence (2004, background): “These memories are of comparatively short time-slices of experience (seconds, minutes, hours) and are formed at event boundaries when a change in goal-processing occurs (cf. Zacks et al., 2001).”
One-year-old infants use teleological representations of actions productively (2003, background): “People as well as children tend to interpret other people’s behavior as goal-directed actions (Bekkering, Wohlschlager, & Gattis, 2000; Zacks, Tversky, & Iyer, 2001 ) and they extend these interpretations to the behavior of other animals and even to inanimate moving objects (Heider & Simmel, 1944).”
Compositional Imitation Learning: Explaining and executing one task at a time (2018, background): “Humans are adept at inferring event structure by hierarchically segmenting continuous sensory experience [1, 2, 3], which may support building efﬁcient event representations in episodic memory [4] and constructing abstract plans [5].”
A Hierarchy of Temporal Receptive Windows in Human Cortex (2008, background): “Fifth, MT , STS, FEF, and precuneus have been reported to be involved in segmenting the incoming stream of sensory information into meaningful events (Zacks et al., 2001a,b), yet another cognitive process that requires long temporal receptive windows.”
AVA: A Video Dataset of Spatio-Temporally Localized Atomic Visual Actions (2017, background): “among human observers [14]. Newtson [24] experimentally studied how humans perceive a videotaped behavior sequence by asking them to use key presses to mark breakpoints between segments. Zacks et al. [39] applied this technique to study how human perceive everyday activities such as making a bed or ”
BabyTalk: Understanding and Generating Simple Image Descriptions (2013, background): “People use high-level structure—goal directed partonomic hierarchies—to describe human actions [48].”
Infants' On-line Segmentation of Dynamic Human Action (2007, background): “Yet, research on adults’ and infants’ processing of complex human action reveals that observers readily extract sensible, discrete units from continuous action (eg, Baird, Baldwin, & Malle, 1999 ; Newtson, 1973 ; Newtson & Enquist, 1976 ; Zacks, Tversky, & Iyer, 2001 ).”
Break It Down: A Comparison of Macro- and Microtasks (2015, background): “There is evidence that information workers already implicitly break larger tasks down: people perceive tasks in segments [13], and mental workload dips at task boundaries, rising during individual subtasks [12].”