Setting boundaries: Development of neural and behavioral event cognition in early childhood.

ABSTRACT: The ongoing stream of sensory experience is so complex and ever-changing that we tend to parse this experience at "event boundaries," which structures and strengthens memory. Memory processes undergo profound change across early childhood. Whether young children also divide their ongoing processing along event boundaries, and if those boundaries relate to memory, could provide important insight into the development of memory systems. In Study 1, 4-7-year-old children and adults segmented a cartoon, and we tested their memory. Children's event boundaries were more variable than adults' and differed in location and consistency of agreement. Older children's event segmentation was more adult-like than younger children's, and children who segmented events more like adults had better memory for

SUBMITTER: Benear SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10592563 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature