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  • Psychology
  • Social Neuroscience

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  • Event segmentation, parsing experiences into units, is crucial for memory, planning, and social navigation.
  • Inter-individual differences in event segmentation are not well understood.
  • Understanding these differences may illuminate cognitive health pathways.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate factors influencing individual differences in event segmentation.
  • To explore the relationship between experiential diversity and event segmentation granularity.
  • To examine the role of social and spatial diversity in event segmentation.

Main Methods:

  • Participants' daily social and spatial experiential diversity was assessed.
  • Event segmentation was measured during a movie-viewing task.
  • Statistical analyses controlled for anxiety, loneliness, and socioeconomic factors.

Main Results:

  • Greater experiential diversity, particularly social diversity, correlated with finer-grained event segmentation.
  • This association persisted after controlling for confounding variables.
  • The link between social diversity and segmentation was stronger in high-anxiety individuals.

Conclusions:

  • Real-world experiential diversity shapes event segmentation granularity.
  • Social experiential diversity plays a key role in event segmentation.
  • Findings suggest a cognitive mechanism linking isolation to cognitive health impacts.