In this paper we present a model of how events and their partic-ipants are represented in working memory (WM). The model’scentral assumption is that events are experienced through se-quentially structured sensorimotor (SM) routines—as are theindividuals that participate in them. In the light of this assump-tion, we propose that events and individuals are stored in WMas prepared SM routines. This proposal allows a new mech-anism for binding representations of individuals to semanticroles such as AGENT and PATIENT. It also enables a novelaccount of how expectations about forthcoming events can in-fluence SM processing in real time as events are perceived.Finally, it supports an account of the interface between WMrepresentations and language.

We present a neural network model of how events are storedin and retrieved from episodic long-term memory (LTM). Themodel is novel in giving an explicit account of the workingmemory (WM) medium mediating access to episodic mem-ory: it makes a specific proposal about how representations ofevents and situations in WM interface with representations ofevents and situations in episodic memory. It also provides theframework for an account of how operations accessing tempo-rally remote situations are reported in language.