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Jeff Zacks studies perception, memory, movies, and reading in the mind and the brain—including brains that are developing, aging, and disordered.
Zacks studies cognition in naturalistic settings such as event understanding, navigation, and the brain's processing of film and media. One particular research focus is how cognition changes with healthy aging and with age-related neurological disorders. To pursue these questions, his laboratory uses behavioral tasks, eye-tracking, neuroimaging, and computational modeling.
Selected Publications
- Memory updating and the structure of event representations
CN Wahlheim, JM Zacks
Trends in Cognitive Sciences - Modeling human activity comprehension at human scale: prediction, segmentation, and categorization
TT Nguyen, MA Bezdek, SJ Gershman, AF Bobick, TS Braver, JM Zacks
PNAS nexus 3 (10), pgae459 - Attention to event segmentation improves memory in young adults: A lifespan study.
ME Smith, CS Hall, R Membreno, D Quintero, JM Zacks
Psychology and aging - No evidence for chunking in spatial memory of route experience.
JQ Sargent, LL Richmond, DM Kellis, ME Smith, JM Zacks
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 50 (7), 1013 - The multi-angle extended three-dimensional activities (META) stimulus set: A tool for studying event cognition
MA Bezdek, TT Nguyen, CS Hall, TS Braver, AF Bobick, JM Zacks
Behavior Research Methods 55 (7), 3629-3644 - The science of visual data communication: What works
SL Franconeri, LM Padilla, P Shah, JM Zacks, J Hullman
Psychological Science in the public interest 22 (3), 110-161 - Memory guides the processing of event changes for older and younger adults.
CN Wahlheim, JM Zacks
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148 (1), 30 - Event perception and memory
JM Zacks
Annual review of psychology 71 (1), 165-191 - Constructing experience: Event models from perception to action
LL Richmond, JM Zacks
Trends in cognitive sciences 21 (12), 962-980 - Event cognition
GA Radvansky, JM Zacks
Oxford University Press
From our podcast:
Event Cognition
By Jeffrey M. Zacks
Coauthored with Gabriel A. Radvansky
Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events to solve problems. In this book, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Jeffrey M. Zacks provide the first integrated framework for event cognition and attempt to synthesize the available psychological and neuroscience data surrounding it. This synthesis leads to new proposals about several traditional areas in psychology and neuroscience including perception, attention, language understanding, memory, and problem solving.
Radvansky and Zacks have written this book with a diverse readership in mind. It is intended for a range of researchers working within cognitive science including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, and education. Readers curious about events more generally such as those working in literature, film theory, and history will also find it of interest.
