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  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

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  • The human mind processes continuous sensorimotor experiences by segmenting them into discrete events.
  • Event-predictive abilities are crucial for survival, guiding interactions with the environment for reproduction and resource acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how events and their conceptualizations are learned, structured, and processed dynamically.
  • To explore the role of event-predictive cognition in mediating between sensorimotor processes and language.
  • To understand how event-predictive cognition forms the foundation of human conceptual thought.

Main Methods:

  • The study focuses on theoretical research into event-predictive cognition.
  • It examines how sensorimotor experiences are encoded into event representations.
  • Analysis of the development of compositional structures from basic event encodings.

Main Results:

  • Event-predictive encodings and processing are fundamental to adaptive interaction with the physical world.
  • These abilities facilitate complex social interactions, language comprehension, and production.
  • Learning progresses from basic event encodings to higher-order compositional structures for reasoning and planning.

Conclusions:

  • Event-predictive cognition provides an optimal mediation between sensorimotor functions and language.
  • It underpins versatile, goal-directed control of physical interactions.
  • Human conceptual thought is fundamentally rooted in the principles of event-predictive cognition.