ABSTRACT
If one pieces together the literature on event perception, one catches glimpses of a world in which objects loom, people walk, wheels roll, heads age, and forms collide. One does not, by and large, catch glimpses of a world in which people think, imagine, and communicate with one another. This cannot (one hopes) reflect a lack of interest in these phenomena, or a low evaluation of their importance. Cognitive and communicative actions are integral to a wide range of events that we perceive and participate in, and thus must be an integral part of the subject matter of event perception. 1 Thought and speech also play an important role in experiments on event perception, where they can have a powerful influence on how participants perceive displays and report on their experiences.
