Object persistence explains event completion

This webpage contains stimuli and demonstrations supporting our paper:

Boger, T., & Strickland, B. (2025).
Object persistence explains event completion.
Cognition, 259, 106110.

Below, you will find links to the experiments we performed.

• Experiment 1: Distortions for normal events
• Experiment 2: Distortions without agents
• Experiment 3: Distortions without continuity
• Experiment 4: Distortions without familiarity (video direction)
• Experiment 5: Distortions without familiarity (object type)
• Experiment 6: Distortions without physical coherence
• Experiment 7: Distortions without event coherence
• Experiment 8: No distortions without persistence

The OSF repository for this project is available here.

The full paper is available here.

Questions? E-mail Tal Boger (tboger1@jhu.edu).