Developmental Spans in Event Comprehension and Representation

Paul van der Broek, Patrica J. Bauer, Tammy Bourg

This volume, which addresses issues of discourse and event representation and comprehension, will be of interest to developmental and cognitive psychologists, psycholinguists, and educators.

Contents: Preface. K. Nelson, Event Representations Then, Now, and Next. Part I: Establishing Event Representations.M.E. Young, Implicit Processes in the Development of Causal Knowledge: A Connectionist Model of the Use of Humean Cues. M.E. Arterberry, Development of Sensitivity to Spatial and Temporal Information. L. Baker-Ward, P.A. Ornstein, G.F.A. Principe, Revealing the Representation: Evidence From Children's Reports of Events. Part II: Event Understanding In Early Childhood.L.L. Travis, Goal-Based Organization of Event Memory in Toddlers. P.J. Bauer, S.S. Wewerka, Saying is Revealing: Verbal Expression of Event Memory in the Transition From Infancy to Early Childhood. R. Fivush, C.A. Haden, Narrating and Representing Experience: Preschoolers' Developing Autobiographical Accounts. N.L. Stein, M.D. Liwag, Children's Understanding, Evaluation, and Memory for Emotional Events. T. Trabasso, N.L. Stein, Narrating, Representing, and Remembering Event Sequences. E.P. Lorch, R.P. Sanchez, Children's Memory for Televised Events. Part III: Event Understanding in Children and Adults.T. Bourg, S. Stephenson, Comprehending Characters' Emotions: The Role of Event Categories and Causal Connectivity. P. van den Broek, Discovering the Cement of the Universe: The Development of Event Comprehension From Childhood to Adulthood. C.R. Fletcher, A. Briggs, B. Linzie, Understanding the Causal Structure of Narrative Events. D.L. Long, B.J. Oppy, M.R. Seely, A "Global-Coherence" View of Event Comprehension: Inferential Processing as Question Answering. T. Bourg, P.J. Bauer, P. van den Broek, Building the Bridges: The Development of Event Comprehension and Representation.