Neural event segmentation of continuous experience in human infants

How infants experience the world is fundamental to understanding their cognition and development. A key principle of adult experience is that, despite receiving continuous sensory input, we perceive this input as discrete events. Here, we investigate such event segmentation in infants and how it differs from adults. Research on event cognition in infants often uses simplified tasks in which (adult) experimenters help solve the segmentation problem for infants by defining event boundaries or presenting discrete actions/vignettes. This presupposes which events are experienced by infants and leaves open questions about the principles governing infant segmentation. We take a different, data-driven approach by studying infant event segmentation of continuous input. We collected whole-brain fMRI data from awake infants (and adults, for comparison) watching a cartoon and used a hidden Markov model to identify event states in the brain. We quantified the existence, timescale, and organization o..., Please refer to the manuscript for details: Yates, T. S., Skalaban, L. J., Ellis, C. T., Bracher, A. J., Baldassano, C., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2022). Neural event segmentation of continuous experience in human infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Yates, T. S., Skalaban, L. J., Ellis, C. T., Bracher, A. J., Baldassano, C., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2022). Neural event segmentation of continuous experience in human infants. *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*.

This directory contains raw and pre-processed movie-watching data and event segmentation files used for the analyses in the manuscript. To analyze this data, you should refer to the [https://github.com/ntblab/infant_neuropipe/tree/EventSeg/](https://github.com/ntblab/infant_neuropipe/tree/EventSeg/). In particular, [https://github.com/ntblab/infant_neuropipe/tree/EventSeg/scripts/EventSeg/Event_Segmentation.ipynb](https://github.com/ntblab/infant_neuropipe/tree/EventSeg/scripts/EventSeg/Event_Segmentation.ipynb) utilizes these files to recreate the figures reported in the paper. For this purpose, the contents of this directory are expected to be in a folder called `data/EventSeg...,