Event Cognition - Radvansky, Gabriel A. (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Cover; Event Cognition; Copyright; Contents; 1 The Importance of Events; 2 Event Model Structure and Processing; 3 Event Perception; 4 Language; 5 Visual Experience of Events; 6 Interactive Events; 7 Long-Term Memory; 8 Autobiographical Memory; 9 Problem Solving, Planning, and Decision-Making; 10 Development; 11 Event Cognition; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events to solve problems. In this book, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Jeffrey M. Zacks provide the first integrated framework for event cognition and attempt to synthesize the available psychological and neuroscience data surrounding it. This synthesis leads to new proposals about several traditional areas in psychology and neuroscience including perception