Making sense of abstract events: Building event schemas
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 34 (6) , 1221-1235
Abstract
Everyday events, such as making a bed, can be segmented hierarchically, with the coarse level characterized by changes in the actor’s goals and the fine level by subgoals (Zacks, Tversky, & Iyer,...Keywords
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