Ten Lectures on the Representation of Events in Language, Perception, Memory, and Action Control
Published on 13. February 2020
Book
Hardback
202 pages
978-90-04-39499-5 (ISBN)
Description
The representation of events is a central topic for cognitive science. In this series of lectures, Jeffrey M. Zacks situates event representations and their role in language within a theory of perception and memory. Event representations have a distinctive structure and format that result from computational and neural mechanisms operating during perception and language comprehension. A crucial aspect of the mechanisms is that event representations are updated to optimize their predictive utility. This updating has consequences for action control and for long-term memory. Event cognition changes across the adult lifespan and can be impaired by conditions including Alzheimer's disease. These mechanisms have broad impact on everyday activity, and have shaped the development of media such as cinema and narrative fiction.
Reviews / Votes
"The book, and its associated online material, are a good introduction for all students and scholars specialising in linguistics and interested in understanding the interface between linguistic and cognitive representations. Although the format of the book - a collection of lectures - may sometimes give rise to a certain incongruence, this volume is surprisingly wellstructured, as the author progresses through the lectures in explaining the theory in a coherent way. [...][S]everal questions are still pending: how many thematic roles do we need, and how should each role be characterised? Other studies grounded in cognitive psychology may help answer these questions [...]. The work resumed by Zack in this volume, however, has the merit of showing the relevance of such a question for embedding cognition into grammar."
- Marta Donazzan, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, in: Linguist List, January 8th, 2021
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-39499-5 (9789004394995)
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Person
Jeffrey M. Zacks, Ph.D. (1999), Stanford University, is Professor and Associate Chair of Psychological & Brain Sciences as Washington University. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles and 5 books, including Flicker: Your Brain on Movies and Event Cognition (with. G.A. Radvansky.)
Content
Note on Supplementary Material
Preface by the Series Editor
Preface by the Author
About the Author
1 The Importance of Events in Conception and Language
2 The Structure and Format of Event Representations
3 Event Segmentation Theory and the Segmentation of Visual Events
4 The Segmentation of Narrative Events
5 Neural Correlates of Event Segmentation
6 Prediction in Event Comprehension
7 Updating Event Models
8 The Event Horizon Model and Long-Term Memory
9 Event Cognition in Aging and Early Alzheimer's Disease
10 Event Representations from Cinema and Narrative Fiction
Bibliography
About the Series Editor
Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers
Preface by the Series Editor
Preface by the Author
About the Author
1 The Importance of Events in Conception and Language
2 The Structure and Format of Event Representations
3 Event Segmentation Theory and the Segmentation of Visual Events
4 The Segmentation of Narrative Events
5 Neural Correlates of Event Segmentation
6 Prediction in Event Comprehension
7 Updating Event Models
8 The Event Horizon Model and Long-Term Memory
9 Event Cognition in Aging and Early Alzheimer's Disease
10 Event Representations from Cinema and Narrative Fiction
Bibliography
About the Series Editor
Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers