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It is argued that event perception and routine sequential action production share a range of characteristics (e.g., similar levels of automaticity, the involvement of sequentially and hierarchically organized schemata, and the coupled operation of predictive and monitoring processes). With this in mind, and in an effort to develop a mechanistic account of event perception, we consider how an existing model of routine sequential action production might be applied in the domain of event perception. We focus the discussion on the multiple roles of prediction in the two domains, and we consider the implications of the application of the model of action production to event perception and for sequential processing more generally. Cooper argues for the use of event representations in action execution, as well as in event perception, and foresees multiple roles for prediction in each case. He argues for strong similarities between perceptual and motor processing of events, and considers how the 'contention scheduling' model of action execution could be redeployed for event perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]