Richmond Lauren L, Gold David A, Zacks Jeffrey M
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis.
Krembil Neuroscience Centre, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital.
J Appl Res Mem Cogn. 2017 Jun;6(2):111-120. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2016.11.002.
Event segmentation is the parsing of ongoing activity into meaningful events. Segmenting in a normative fashion-identifying event boundaries similar to others' boundaries-is associated with better memory for and better performance of naturalistic actions. Given this, a reasonable hypothesis is that interventions that improve memory and attention for everyday events could lead to improvement in domains that are important for independent living, particularly in older populations. Event segmentation and memory measures may also be effective diagnostic tools for estimating people's ability to carry out tasks of daily living. Such measures preserve the rich, naturalistic character of everyday activity, but are easy to quantify in a laboratory or clinical setting. Therefore, event segmentation and memory measures may be a useful proxy for clinicians to assess everyday functioning in patient populations and an appropriate target for interventions aimed at improving everyday memory and tasks of daily living.
事件分割是将正在进行的活动解析为有意义的事件。以规范的方式进行分割——识别与他人边界相似的事件边界——与对自然行为有更好的记忆和表现相关联。鉴于此,一个合理的假设是,改善对日常事件的记忆和注意力的干预措施可能会导致在对独立生活很重要的领域有所改善,尤其是在老年人群体中。事件分割和记忆测量也可能是评估人们执行日常生活任务能力的有效诊断工具。这些测量保留了日常活动丰富、自然的特征,但在实验室或临床环境中易于量化。因此,事件分割和记忆测量可能是临床医生评估患者群体日常功能的有用替代指标,也是旨在改善日常记忆和日常生活任务的干预措施的合适目标。