# If I mark or emphasise event boundaries for viewers, do they remember the sequence better, and where was that tested?

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Gold, Zacks & Flores (2017) edited three single-shot everyday-activity movies (about 5.5-6.3 minutes each) with a bell, a brief slowdown and an arrow, placed at event boundaries or event middles, and tested younger and older adults. Boundary cuing improved recall (about 0.29 vs 0.26, d=0.17 in Exp 1; boundary-item recall 0.37 vs 0.27) and, in Exp 1, recognition; the Exp 2 replication reproduced the recall benefit but not a reliable recognition effect. Mid-event cuing helped less. The cues were not cuts or narrative devices and the activities were not stories, so transfer to scene construction is a proposal.

Gold, Zacks & Flores (2017) edited three single-shot everyday-activity movies (about 5.5-6.3 minutes each) with a bell, a brief slowdown and an arrow, placed at event boundaries or event middles, and tested younger and older adults. Boundary cuing improved recall (about 0.29 vs 0.26, d=0.17 in Exp 1; boundary-item recall 0.37 vs 0.27) and, in Exp 1, recognition; the Exp 2 replication reproduced the recall benefit but not a reliable recognition effect. Mid-event cuing helped less. The cues were not cuts or narrative devices and the activities were not stories, so transfer to scene construction is a proposal.

Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; boundary cuing benefit in Exp 1 (d=0.22) not replicated in Exp 2 (p=.33) - kept.

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- [sourced_fact] Gold, Zacks & Flores (2017) edited three single-shot everyday-activity movies (about 5.5-6.3 minutes each) with a bell, a brief slowdown and an arrow, placed at event boundaries or event middles, and tested younger and older adults. Boundary cuing improved recall (about 0.29 vs 0.26, d=0.17 in Exp 1; boundary-item recall 0.37 vs 0.27) and, in Exp 1, recognition; the Exp 2 replication reproduced the recall benefit but not a reliable recognition effect. Mid-event cuing helped less. The cues were not cuts or narrative devices and the activities were not stories, so transfer to scene construction is a proposal. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/PMC5258781/fullTextXML

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