Jeff Zacks, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Professor of Radiology
- Phone: (314) 935-8454
- Email: jzacks@wustl.edu
Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Professor of Radiology
Email: jzacks@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-8454
Office: Psychology Building 206
Mailbox: CB 1125
Professor Zacks’ laboratory studies how the representations in the brain and the world work together in cognition. He studies perception and cognition using behavioral experiments, functional MRI, computational modeling, and testing of neurological patients. One line of research examines how people parse the continuous stream of behavior into meaningful events, and how this affects memory and cognition. Another line examines how mental imagery contributes to reasoning about spatial relations, especially how mental representations of one’s body are updated during imagery and reasoning.
Recent Previous Courses
- Advanced Cognitive Psychology: Psychology 5087 (with Ian Dobbins, 2015)
- Cognitive Psychology: Psychology 360
- The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film: Psychology 488/PNP 4488
