Abstract Adults segment continuous and dynamic environment into discrete units, and individual differences in segmentation predict individual differences in memory. Similar parsing mechanisms have been identified in infants, using different methods, but little is known about event segmentation in older children or about its relations to memory. We tested event segmentation and its relations to memory in 5- to 7-year-old children and adults. Participants performed two event comprehension tasks with short animated narrative movies: a unitization task, in which they pressed a key to mark boundaries between meaningful events, and a dwell time task, in which they viewed a self-paced slideshow, and completed two memory tasks. Adults outperformed children as expected. For both age groups, better event comprehension was associated with better memory, though which measures showed this relationship varied. Thus, by school age, children have developed event segmentation mechanisms that, like adults, contribute to episodic memory formation.

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事件知觉和记忆的发展

摘要 成年人将连续的动态环境分割成离散单元，分割的个体差异预测记忆的个体差异。已经使用不同的方法在婴儿中发现了类似的解析机制，但对大龄儿童的事件分割或其与记忆的关系知之甚少。我们在 5 到 7 岁的儿童和成人中测试了事件分割及其与记忆的关系。参与者用动画短片完成了两项事件理解任务：一个单元化任务，他们按下一个键来标记有意义事件之间的界限，一个停留时间任务，他们观看自定进度的幻灯片，并完成两项记忆任务. 正如预期的那样，成年人的表现优于儿童。对于两个年龄组，更好的事件理解与更好的记忆力有关，尽管哪些措施表明这种关系各不相同。因此，到学龄时，儿童已经发展出事件分割机制，与成人一样，有助于情节记忆的形成。