{"pk":29413,"title":"Intentionality Effects on Event Boundaries","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Theories of event cognition have hypothesized that the\nboundaries of events are characterized by change, including a\nchange in the agent’s goal, but the role of higher-order goal\ninformation on the placement of event boundaries has not been\naddressed experimentally. We tested whether goals can affect\nhow viewers determine event boundaries. Participants read a\ncontext sentence stating an agent’s goal (e.g., “Jesse wants to\neat the orange with her breakfast” vs. “Jesse wants to use the\norange as a garnish”). Participants then saw an image of an\nevent outcome (e.g., a partly peeled orange) and were asked to\nidentify whether the event had occurred (“Did she peel the\norange?”). Participants were more likely to respond Yes to a\npartly complete outcome if the outcome satisfied the agent’s\ngoal. Our results offer the first direct evidence in support of the\nconclusion that higher-order intentionality information affects\nthe way events are conceptualized.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"events"},{"word":"ASPECT"},{"word":"Telicity"},{"word":"goals"},{"word":"intentionality"},{"word":"perfective"}],"section":"Events, Actions, and Sequencing","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sn1c6jz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ariel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mathis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Anna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Papafragou","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29413/galley/19273/download/"}]}