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  • Human cognition segments continuous experiences into discrete events.
  • Understanding how event segmentation impacts memory encoding and retrieval is crucial for cognitive science.
  • Prior research suggests event boundaries influence memory, but the precise relationship with long-term storage structure needs further elucidation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between online event segmentation during story comprehension and the structure of story information in long-term memory.
  • To determine if successful event segmentation during encoding leads to distinct memory representations for information within versus between events.

Main Methods:

  • Participants read fictional historical event stories.
  • A post-reading verb arrangement task was employed to assess memory structure.
  • Participants grouped randomly presented verbs based on their story comprehension, controlling for various linguistic overlaps.

Main Results:

  • Individuals who comprehended stories better clustered verbs from the same event more closely than verbs from different events.
  • This effect persisted even after controlling for orthographic, text-based, semantic, and situational similarities between verbs.
  • The findings indicate a direct link between online event segmentation and memory organization.

Conclusions:

  • The way individuals segment stories into events during reading influences how that information is structured and bound in long-term memory.
  • Information within a perceived event is more tightly bound in memory compared to information spanning across different events.
  • Event segmentation acts as a critical organizational principle for memory storage of narrative information.