Richmond LL, Zacks JM. Constructing Experience: Event Models from Perception to Action.
Trends Cogn Sci 2017;
21:962-980. [PMID:
28899609 PMCID:
PMC5694361 DOI:
10.1016/j.tics.2017.08.005]
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Abstract
Mental representations of everyday experience are rich, structured, and multimodal. In this article we consider the adaptive pressures that led to human construction of such representations, arguing that structured event representations enable cognitive systems to more effectively predict the trajectory of naturalistic everyday activity. We propose an account of how cortical systems and the hippocampus (HPC) interact to construct, maintain, and update event representations. This analysis throws light on recent research on story comprehension, event segmentation, episodic memory, and action planning. It also suggests how the growing science base can be deployed to diagnose impairments in event perception and memory, and to improve memory for everyday events.
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