Event segmentation ability uniquely predicts event memory

被引:141
作者
Sargent, Jesse Q. [1 ]
Zacks, Jeffrey M. [1 ]
Hambrick, David Z. [2 ]
Zacks, Rose T. [2 ]
Kurby, Christopher A. [3 ]
Bailey, Heather R. [1 ]
Eisenberg, Michelle L. [1 ]
Beck, Taylor M. [4 ]
机构
[1] Washington Univ, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
[2] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[3] Grand Valley State Univ, Allendale, MI 49401 USA
[4] MIT, Grad Program Sci Writing 14N108, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
关键词
Event cognition; Episodic memory; Cognitive aging; ADULT AGE-DIFFERENCES; WORKING-MEMORY; PROCESSING SPEED; TERM-MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS; FLUID INTELLIGENCE; CAPACITY; PERCEPTION; ATTENTION; MEDIATOR;
D O I
10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.002
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
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 general cognitive abilities? Two hundred and eight adults ranging from 20 to 79 years old segmented movies of everyday events and attempted to remember the events afterwards. They also completed psychometric ability tests and tests measuring script knowledge for everyday events. Event segmentation and script knowledge both explained unique variance in event memory above and beyond the psychometric measures, and did so as strongly in older as in younger adults. These results suggest that event segmentation is a basic cognitive mechanism, important for memory across the lifespan. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:241 / 255
页数:15
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