{"612999":{"#nid":"612999","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Joel Mumma","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EName:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoel Mumma\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDissertation Proposal Defense Meeting\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Wednesday, October 31, 2018\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;12:00pm\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;J.S. Coon bldg. room 252\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvisor:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrank Durso, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDissertation Committee Members:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERick Thomas, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJamie Gorman, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHoward Weiss, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoseph Magliano, Ph.D. (Georgia State University)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E Understanding the Perceptual Segmentation of Situations via Event Segmentation Theory\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESummary:\u003C\/strong\u003E Parsing the daily stream of activity into situations is essential for adaptive functioning in everyday life. The present studies will utilize the framework of Event Segmentation Theory (Zacks, Speer, Swallow, Braver, \u0026amp; Reynolds, 2007) to examine two issues related to the perceptual segmentation of ongoing activity into situations: 1) What must change in a situation for one to perceive that a new situation has begun and 2) how does our representation of the situation remain stable despite the fact that changes occur within a situation?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegarding the first issue, research on experienced situations (e.g., in social and personality psychology) and described or depicted situations (e.g., in narrative comprehension) both recognize that our representations of situations reflect specific features of situations (i.e., \u0026ldquo;situation cues,\u0026rdquo; such as who is present and where they are present), but research in social and personality psychology suggests that our representations also reflect the general characteristics of the situation (e.g., how positive, social, or adverse a situation is). However, it is largely unknown how changes in cues and characteristics relate to each other and to the perception of the boundaries between situations. Experiments 1 and 2 will explore the dimensions of situations (i.e., cues or characteristics) that must change in order for one to perceive that a new situation has begun. On the other hand, Experiments 3 and 4 will address the issue of why it is that our representation of a situation remains stable despite the fact that events are simultaneously unfolding at finer-grained timescales. In line with the cognitive mechanisms posited by Event Segmentation Theory, it is hypothesized that differences in the predictive accuracy of our representations of situations and finer-grained events underlies the differential stability of these representations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Understanding the Perceptual Segmentation of Situations via Event Segmentation Theory"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2018-10-19 12:30:24","changed_gmt":"2018-10-19 12:30:24","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-10-31T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-10-31T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-10-31T15:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-10-31 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-10-31 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-10-31 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}