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Roles for Event Representations in Sensorimotor Experience, Memory Formation, and Language Processing
Author(s) -
Knott Alistair,
Takac Martin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/tops.12497
Subject(s) - cognitive psychology , psychology , cognitive science , event related potential , event (particle physics) , autobiographical memory , communication , cognition , linguistics , neuroscience , recall , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Abstract The unifying theme for the papers in this volume is that event‐predictive representations play an important role in cognitive processes, and they are a particularly fruitful object of study for cognitive scientists. In this paper, we present our own model of event representations that draws together several disparate strands of research into event representations, relating to event perception, event encodings in working memory and their role in prediction, and events as they are reported in language. Our main claim is that the notion of deictic routines originally developed by Ballard et al. (1997) is of great use in explaining how these different types of event representation interface with one another.