Jeff Zacks
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Jeff Zacks's Degrees
- PhD Psychology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey Zacks is an American psychologist, currently at Washington University in St. Louis and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He specializes in research on event segmentation, media processing, and cognition in natural settings. His laboratory at Washington University focuses on the development neurological disorders through the use of various psychological testing methods.
Jeff Zacks's Published Works
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Published Works
- Event structure in perception and conception. (2001) (1016)
- Event perception: a mind-brain perspective. (2007) (787)
- Coherent spontaneous activity accounts for trial-to-trial variability in human evoked brain responses (2006) (683)
- Neuroimaging Studies of Mental Rotation: A Meta-analysis and Review (2008) (683)
- Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events. (2001) (568)
- Segmentation in the perception and memory of events (2008) (514)
- Human brain activity time-locked to perceptual event boundaries (2001) (478)
- Event Segmentation (2007) (281)
- Event boundaries in perception affect memory encoding and updating. (2009) (269)
- Reading Stories Activates Neural Representations of Visual and Motor Experiences (2009) (257)
- Imagined transformations of bodies: an fMRI investigation (1999) (253)
- Using movement and intentions to understand simple events (2004) (247)
- Segmentation in reading and film comprehension. (2009) (246)
- Mental spatial transformations of objects and perspective (2001) (233)
- Human Brain Activity Time-Locked to Narrative Event Boundaries (2007) (221)
- Transformations of visuospatial images. (2005) (214)
- Two kinds of visual perspective taking (2006) (201)
- Searchlight analysis: Promise, pitfalls, and potential (2013) (184)
- Event understanding and memory in healthy aging and dementia of the Alzheimer type. (2006) (178)
- The Brain's Cutting-Room Floor: Segmentation of Narrative Cinema (2010) (176)
- Imagined Viewer and Object Rotations Dissociated with Event-Related fMRI (2003) (164)
- Lines, Blobs, Crosses and Arrows: Diagrammatic Communication with Schematic Figures (2000) (164)
- Understanding events : from perception to action (2008) (163)
- Event perception (2011) (163)
- Neural substrates of narrative comprehension and memory (2008) (162)
- The Impact of Continuity Editing in Narrative Film on Event Segmentation (2011) (154)
- Temporal changes as event boundaries: Processing and memory consequences of narrative time shifts (2005) (147)
- Lateral somatotopic organization during imagined and prepared movements. (2006) (145)
- Prediction Error Associated with the Perceptual Segmentation of Naturalistic Events (2011) (143)
- A Parametric Study of Mental Spatial Transformations of Bodies (2002) (137)
- Inferring articulation and recognizing gestures from acoustics with a neural network trained on x-ray microbeam data. (1992) (136)
- Using movement and intentions to understand human activity (2009) (135)
- Event segmentation ability uniquely predicts event memory (2013) (134)
- A Computational Model of Event Segmentation From Perceptual Prediction (2007) (130)
- Event boundaries in memory and cognition (2017) (124)
- Multitrees: enriching and reusing hierarchical structure (1994) (114)
- Reward Motivation Enhances Task Coding in Frontoparietal Cortex. (2016) (108)
- Visual motion and the neural correlates of event perception (2006) (106)
- Neural correlates of incongruous visual information An event-related fMRI study (2003) (101)
- Event Perception and Memory. (2019) (96)
- Age differences in the perception of hierarchical structure in events (2011) (96)
- Structured event memory: a neuro-symbolic model of event cognition (2019) (94)
- Reading bar graphs: Effects of extraneous depth cues and graphical context. (1998) (92)
- Constructing Experience: Event Models from Perception to Action (2017) (90)
- Rapid Transfer of Abstract Rules to Novel Contexts in Human Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (2011) (85)
- Structuring information interfaces for procedural learning. (2003) (79)
- Changes in Events Alter How People Remember Recent Information (2011) (77)
- Pictures of a thousand words: Investigating the neural mechanisms of reading with extremely rapid event-related fMRI (2008) (74)
- Reliability of functional localization using fMRI (2003) (72)
- Starting from scratch and building brick by brick in comprehension (2012) (70)
- The structure of experience. (2008) (68)
- Aging and perceived event structure as a function of modality (2012) (64)
- Gratuitous graphics? Putting preferences in perspective (1996) (63)
- Multiple Systems for Spatial Imagery: Transformations of Objects and Bodies (2005) (61)
- Rapid Self-Paced Event-Related Functional MRI: Feasibility and Implications of Stimulus- versus Response-Locked Timing (2001) (60)
- Action perception predicts action performance (2013) (60)
- Event Segmentation Improves Event Memory up to One Month Later (2017) (59)
- Selective disturbance of mental rotation by cortical stimulation (2003) (58)
- Event Representations and Predictive Processing: The Role of the Midline Default Network Core (2019) (58)
- Effects of cues to event segmentation on subsequent memory (2017) (55)
- Medial Temporal Lobe Volume Predicts Elders’ Everyday Memory (2013) (51)
- Graphs in Print (2002) (49)
- Visual target detection is impaired at event boundaries (2012) (45)
- Multitrees: enriching and reusing hierarchical structure (1994) (42)
- Event perception: A theory and its application to clinical neuroscience. (2010) (42)
- Limits on action priming by pictures of objects. (2014) (42)
- The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works (2021) (41)
- Flicker: Your Brain on Movies (2014) (38)
- Memory Guides the Processing of Event Changes for Older and Younger Adults (2019) (35)
- The activation of modality-specific representations during discourse processing (2013) (35)
- A new neural network for articulatory speech recognition and its application to vowel identification (1994) (34)
- Task-evoked fMRI changes in attention networks are associated with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers (2015) (33)
- Sequences learned without awareness can orient attention during the perception of human activity (2008) (32)
- Ambient and focal visual processing of naturalistic activity. (2016) (31)
- Event perception: Translations and applications. (2017) (31)
- Situation model updating in young and older adults: Global versus incremental mechanisms. (2015) (27)
- Attentional focus affects how events are segmented and updated in narrative reading (2017) (27)
- Predicting dysfunctional age-related task activations from resting-state network alterations (2019) (26)
- Preserved Neural Event Segmentation in Healthy Older Adults (2018) (25)
- The hippocampus constructs narrative memories across distant events (2021) (23)
- Training scientists in a science center improves science communication to the public. (2012) (22)
- The Imitative Mind: On bodies and events (2002) (22)
- The role of kinematics in cortical regions for continuous human motion perception (2014) (20)
- Effects of penetrating traumatic brain injury on event segmentation and memory (2016) (19)
- Aging and the encoding of changes in events: The role of neural activity pattern reinstatement (2019) (17)
- Dynamic prediction during perception of everyday events (2018) (16)
- The Importance of Events (2014) (16)
- Narratives bridge the divide between distant events in episodic memory (2020) (14)
- What is primed in priming from imagery? (2003) (13)
- Constructing Event Representations During Film Comprehension (2013) (12)
- Events by Hands and Feet (2004) (12)
- Age Differences in Spatial Memory for Mediated Environments (2018) (11)
- Literature and event understanding (2011) (11)
- Transformations and representations supporting spatial perspective taking (2017) (9)
- Functional reorganization of spatial transformations after a parietal lesion (2004) (9)
- Age Differences in the Perception of Goal Structure in Everyday Activity (2019) (9)
- Rapid self-paced event-related functional MRI (2001) (8)
- Distraction shrinks space (2013) (8)
- Posttraumatic Stress and the Comprehension of Everyday Activity. (2016) (8)
- The role of animacy in spatial transformations (2010) (7)
- APOE ε4 genotype predicts memory for everyday activities (2015) (7)
- The influence of everyday events on prospective timing “in the moment” (2018) (7)
- Designing Graphs for Decision-Makers (2019) (7)
- Attachment Theory and Cognitive Science: Commentary on Fonagy and Target (2007) (7)
- Representations in Mind and World : Essays Inspired by Barbara Tversky (2017) (6)
- Chapter 53 – Discourse Comprehension (2016) (6)
- Memory Guides the Comprehension of Event Changes for Older and Younger Adults (2017) (6)
- Event Representation in Language and Cognition: Talking about events (2010) (6)
- How are bodies special? Effects of body features on spatial reasoning (2016) (6)
- Precis of "Flicker: Your Brain on Movies". (2015) (6)
- Graded structure and the speed of category verification: On the moderating effects of anticipatory control for social vs. non-social categories ☆ (2004) (5)
- Scaling up from atomic to complex events (2001) (4)
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use: Situation models in naturalistic comprehension (2015) (4)
- The development of event perception and memory (2020) (4)
- Knowledge and the reliability of constructive memory (2021) (4)
- Event memory uniquely predicts memory for large-scale space (2018) (4)
- Perceiving Narrated Events (2004) (4)
- Understanding the Individual Cognitive Potential of Persons with Intellectual Disability in Workshops for Adapted Work (2017) (3)
- Granularity in taxonomy, time, and space (2012) (3)
- The role of prediction in perception: Evidence from interrupted visual search. (2014) (3)
- Priming of movie content is modulated by event boundaries. (2021) (3)
- The role of prior-event retrieval in encoding changed event features (2020) (2)
- Events in Mind, Media, and Memory (2017) (2)
- Global and Incremental Updating of Event Representations in Discourse (2018) (2)
- Diagrams to Augment Cognition (2019) (2)
- Ten Lectures on the Representation of Events in Language, Perception, Memory, and Action Control (2019) (2)
- Building bridges: the hippocampus constructs narrative memories across distant events (2020) (2)
- Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating (2021) (2)
- Introduction to Events and Objects in Perception, Language, and Communication (2019) (2)
- Dynamic prediction during perception of everyday events (2018) (1)
- Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating (2022) (1)
- Improving Event Cognition: From the Laboratory to the Clinic (2017) (1)
- Multiple Systems for Visuospatial Imagery (2006) (1)
- Prediction prevents rapid resumption from being disrupted after the target's location has changed (2010) (1)
- PTSD is associated with impaired event processing and memory for everyday events (2022) (1)
- Spatial Transformations of Scene Stimuli: It’s an Upright World (2015) (1)
- On Bodies and Events 1 (2002) (1)
- Parsing activity into meaningful events (2005) (1)
- The Importance of Events in Conception and Language (2020) (1)
- The opportunistic use of reference frames for rotating scene stimuli (2010) (1)
- Individual Variation in Memory and Cognition (2018) (1)
- Author ' s personal copy Event segmentation ability uniquely predicts event memory (2013) (1)
- Perceptual Segmentation of Natural Events: Theory, Methods, and Applications (2015) (1)
- Correction to Swallow et al. (2009). (2011) (1)
- Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI ’ 94 • “ Celebrating Interdependence ” 330 (1994) (1)
- Part II Developing an Understanding of Events: Overview (2008) (0)
- Toward Neurally-Inspired Computational Models of Narrative (Invited Talk) (2014) (0)
- Insight in Mind (2017) (0)
- Event Segmentation Theory and the Segmentation of Visual Events (2020) (0)
- The Segmentation of Narrative Events (2020) (0)
- Note on Supplementary Material (2020) (0)
- ALTERED TASK-EVOKED FMRI ACTIVITY IN PRECLINICAL ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (2014) (0)
- Part III Perceiving and Segmenting Events: Overview (2008) (0)
- Response of Rat Prefrontal Pyramidal Neurons Dopamine Increases the Gain of the Input-Output (2015) (0)
- ALTERED TASK-EVOKED FMRI ACTIVITY IN PRECLINICAL ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (2014) (0)
- Toward Neurally-Inspired Computational Models of Narrative ∗ (2014) (0)
- The multi-angle extended three-dimensional activities (META) stimulus set: A tool for studying event cognition. (2022) (0)
- The influence of everyday events on prospective timing “in the moment” (2018) (0)
- Priming Shows that Episodic Memory is Structured According to Perceptual Events (2011) (0)
- The Event Horizon Model and Long-Term Memory (2020) (0)
- PTSD is associated with impaired event processing and memory for everyday events (2022) (0)
- Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers (2020) (0)
- Running head : EVENT STRUCTURE Event Structure in Perception and Conception (2003) (0)
- Event Cognition in Aging and Early Alzheimer’s Disease (2020) (0)
- Prediction in Event Comprehension (2020) (0)
- Multiple Systems for Visuospatial Imagery - eScholarship (2006) (0)
- Witt - Introducting Hat Graphs (2018) (0)
- communication to the public Training scientists in a science center improves science (2015) (0)
- The Cognitive Neuroscience of Discourse (2017) (0)
- Implicitly Learned Sequences Structure the Perception of Human Activity (2004) (0)
- Effects of cues to event segmentation on subsequent memory (2017) (0)
- Attentional focus affects how events are segmented and updated in narrative reading (2017) (0)
- The role of kinematics in cortical regions for continuous human motion perception (2013) (0)
- Starting from scratch and building brick by brick in comprehension (2012) (0)
- On the Perceptual and Neural Basis of Event Understanding (2003) (0)
- Cueing natural event boundaries improves memory in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (2023) (0)
- Visual Experience of Events (2014) (0)
- and Prepared Movements Lateral Somatotopic Organization During Imagined (2015) (0)
- Virtual navigation in healthy aging: Activation during learning and deactivation during retrieval predicts successful memory for spatial locations (2022) (0)
- Event memory uniquely predicts memory for large-scale space (2018) (0)
- Updating Event Models (2020) (0)
- Memory reinstatement in posteromedial cortex and event comprehension in healthy aging (2019) (0)
- The Structure and Format of Event Representations (2020) (0)
- Perceptual Predictions Break Down at Event Boundaries (2009) (0)
- Aging and event segmentation: An fMRI investigation of individual differences in event perception and memory. (2014) (0)
- Preface by the Author (2020) (0)
- Event Model Structure and Processing (2014) (0)
- Higher-Level Goals in the Processing of Human Action Events (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews (2021) (0)
- Distraction shrinks space (2013) (0)
- PROCEDURAL LEARNING 1 Running head: Procedural learning Structuring Information Interfaces For Procedural Learning (2003) (0)
- Contributions of nonspatial abilities to route memory in younger and older adults (2018) (0)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity Predicts Event Processing Performance: (502412013-922) (2012) (0)
- Long-Term Memory (2014) (0)
- Psychology and Aging Preserved Neural Event Segmentation in Healthy Older Adults (0)
- Event Segmentation Drives Memory Updating (2009) (0)
- Part IV Representing and Remembering Events: Overview (2008) (0)
- Series Editor (2018) (0)
- Diagrams to Augment Cognition - eScholarship (2002) (0)
- Age related differences in using memory to predict the course of new events (2018) (0)
- Event Representations from Cinema and Narrative Fiction (2020) (0)
- General Memory Guides the Processing of Event Changes for Older and Younger Adults (0)
- Problem Solving, Planning, and Decision-Making (2014) (0)
- Neural Correlates of Event Segmentation (2020) (0)
- Static and dynamic visual narratives, by brain and by eye (2017) (0)
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