ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, research has revealed a great deal of developmental continuity in the organization of event representations. The work of Katherine Nelson and her colleagues (e.g., Nelson, 1986) has shown that the event representations of children as young as 3 years-of-age incorporate information about temporal order and logical and causal relations between event elements. Bauer and her colleagues (e.g., Bauer, 1992; Bauer & Mandler, 1989; Bauer & Thai, 1990) have extended these findings to preverbal children. There is now a substantial body of evidence indicating that causal and temporal organization is present in the event representations of toddlers, and even in the event representations of infants as young as 11.5 months (Bauer & Mandler, 1992).
