Structuring Memory Through Inference‐Based Event Segmentation

• Published in: Topics in cognitive science Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 106 - 127
• Main Authors: Shin, Yeon Soon, DuBrow, Sarah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Cognitive psychology; Episodic memory; Episodic sampling; Event segmentation; Latent cause inference; Memory; Situation models; Temporal context; Episodic sampling; Latent cause inference; Temporal context; Event segmentation; Episodic memory; Situation models

Although the stream of information we encounter is continuous, our experiences tend to be discretized into meaningful clusters, altering how we represent our past. Event segmentation theory proposes that clustering ongoing experience in this way is adaptive in that it promotes efficient online proce...