Both projects develop rich relationships between behavioral experiments, functional neuroimaging studies, and information technology design. In a series of experiments we have found evidence that activity is naturally perceived in terms of hierarchically organized part-subpart relationships. Perceptual event structure correlates with downstream cognition, e.g. language and memory. We have been exploring a proposed dissociation between imagined transformations of objects and of our perspectives. Chronometric studies show that they have different computational properties.
Psychometric data indicate that they can vary independently across individuals.
Selected publications . Human brain activity time-locked to perceptual event boundaries. Event structure in perception and cognition.