Conclusions
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In conclusion, we conducted a two-day online workshop designed to increase older adults’ knowledge in one of two activities (gyoza-making or Tai chi). We found clear learning effects in the trained activity and improved ability to recognize information from the trained activity, but the knowledge intervention did not improve participants’ event segmentation ability. The potential effect of dosage and stimulus complexity on these results may be indicative of the nature of event segmentation. The relatively high segmentation agreement found for the Tai chi video suggests that older adults can leverage bottom-up visual features to guide event segmentation in novel tasks, especially when these bottom-up features are simplistic. Additionally, the lack of an increase in segmentation agreement for the gyoza video from pre- to post-test suggests that older adults may utilize pre-existing schemas and scripts for segmenting new activities that are similar to past experiences.