Events

Past Event

Event Cognition: Recent Directions and Current Controversies

April 2, 2025
10:30 AM - 3:30 PM
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Uris Hall, Columbia University, 3022 Broadway, New York

Event Description

This seminar features work by six psychology and neuroscience researchers studying the cognitive process of event segmentation: how we break up the continuous experiences of our lives into separate events that we can understand and remember. Through talks and panel discussions, we will discuss recent advances in understanding how event memories are constructed and the causes and consequences of generating event boundaries. These studies make use of a wide range of experimental paradigms, ranging from highly-controlled sequences of objects to meaningful experiences like stories, movies, and music, and we will examine how we can connect and reconcile the findings from these differing approaches.

Event Information

Free and open to the public. Members of the public must email [email protected] to request campus access. RSVP is required for those interested in attending the speaker lunch. 

Hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University. 

Event Sessions

10:30am-12:30pm in Uris Hall (Room 326)

1:30pm-3:30pm in Uris Hall (Room 142)

  • Lila Davachi, Professor of Psychology at Columbia University
  • Brian Scholl, Professor of Psychology at Yale University
  • Janice Chen, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Brain Science and Johns Hopkins University