APS
2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026
Distinct Event Boundaries Shape Reading Dynamics and Episodic Memory Encoding during Narrative Comprehension
- Mar Domínguez-Orfila
Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research - Mar Domínguez-Orfila
Institute of Neuroscience, Universitat de Barcelona - Ruth De Diego-Balaguer
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) - Ruth De Diego-Balaguer
Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit - Ruth De Diego-Balaguer
Institute of Neurosciences - Lluis Fuentemilla
Institute of Neuroscience, Universitat de Barcelona - Lluis Fuentemilla
Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research
Abstract
We investigated how readers segment narratives into meaningful events using reading times, EEG, and semantic network analyses. Results show that pre- and post-event boundaries are associated with different behavioral and neural responses, coarse events occupy more semantically interconnected regions of the narrative, and greater reaction time slowdown predicts later recall.
