The inputs to hearing, vision, and the other senses are continuous, dynamic, and comprise huge amounts of data each second. However, human conscious experience seems to resolve into a manageable number of more-or-less discrete entities—most prominently ‘’objects’’ and ‘’events.’’ Just as people perceive the world as being made up of objects such as “chairs,” “airplanes,” and “dogs,” people perceive the world as made up of events such as “buying a car” or “cutting a cake” (Barker, 1963). For both objects and events, perception includes ‘’segmenting’’ entities from their surroundings, ‘’recognizing’’ them as individuals or instances of a class, and identifying the features that characterize them. Event perception is the set of cognitive mechanisms by which observers pick out meaningful spatiotemporal wholes from the stream of experience, recognize them, and identify their characteristics.