Events as intersecting object histories: A new theory of event representation.

We offer a new account of event representation based on those aspects of object representation that encode an object's history, and which convey the distinct states that an object has experienced across time-minimally reflecting the before and after of whatever changes the object undergoes as an event unfolds. Our intention is to account for the content of event representations. For an event that can be described as "the chef chopped the onion,"...