Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sargent JQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3821069 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sargent Jesse Q JQ Zacks Jeffrey M JM Hambrick David Z DZ Zacks Rose T RT Kurby Christopher A CA Bailey Heather R HR Eisenberg Michelle L ML Beck Taylor M TM
Cognition 20130814 2
Memory for everyday events plays a central role in tasks of daily living, autobiographical memory, and planning. Event memory depends in part on segmenting ongoing activity into meaningful units. This study examined the relationship between event segmentation and memory in a lifespan sample to answer the following question: Is the ability to segment activity into meaningful events a unique predictor of subsequent memory, or is the relationship between event perception and memory accounted for by ...[more]