ABSTRACT
Segmentation in cinematic narrative calls for a discussion of medium-specific methodological designs employed in research studies, as well as their corresponding experimental findings. Event segmentation is a necessary cognitive process for narrative understanding. The implied correlation between event segmentation and narrative comprehension is debatable due to a potential logical gap between existing experimental methods and their inferred theoretical conclusions. Philosophical accounts identify events as logic, linguistic, and ontological constructs. Syntactic and formal semantic analyses of discourse events consistently brought into focus their temporal connotation in an atomic bottom-up approach with marginal allusions to non-linguistic top-down interpretations. Parsing algorithms in computational implementations of grammars or parsing strategies in human sentence processing afford deep-level connections among units. Research on segmenting continuous streams of information into discrete events gained relevance in cognitive psychology due to attention mechanisms, memory, and comprehension of sequential stimuli.
