{"pk":26590,"title":"How event endstates are conceptualized in adults and infants","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Many event descriptions are true only when the event comes to its natural end point: e.g., a “feeding” event culmi-nates when the feed-ee has eaten, not simply when food is provided. Do non-linguistic event conceptualizations reflect attentionto natural culmination points? We tested adults and 14-month-olds to ask: provided two events with the same ACTION butdifferent ENDPOINTs - one a naturally expected result, the other only partially achieved - do adults and infants perceive themas members of the same event category or of different categories? Adults were asked to rate the similarity between the twoevents; infants were habituated to one event and tested for dishabituation when it was switched to the other. Adult data suggestthe difference between a complete and a partially-complete event is registered, and carries more psychological weight than amere perceptual difference. Infant data (ongoing) will show the developmental origin of such conceptualizations.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1689h769","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Angela","middle_name":"","last_name":"He","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sudha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Arunachalam","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26590/galley/16226/download/"}]}