Publications

Levy, E., Zacks, J., Tversky, B., & Schiano, D. (1996). Gratuitous graphics?  Putting preferences in perspective. In M. J. Tauber (Ed.), Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 42-49). Vancouver: ACM. levychi96-1.pdf

Zacks, J., Levy, E., Tversky, B., & Schiano, D. J. (1998). Reading bar graphs: Effects of extraneous depth cues and graphical context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 4, 119-138. (Abstract, email for full)

Zacks, J., & Tversky, B. (1999). Bars and lines: A study of graphic communication. Memory and Cognition, 27, 1073-1079.

Zacks, J., Rypma, B., Gabrieli, J., Tversky, B., & Glover, G. (1999). Imagined transformations of bodies: an fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 37, 1029-1040.

>  Box link to a zip file containing images and instructions used for the study

Zacks, J. M., Tversky, B., & Iyer, G. (2001). Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 29-58.

Zacks, J. M., & Tversky, B. (2001). Event structure in perception and conception. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 3-21.

Zacks, J. M., Braver, T.S., Sheridan, M.A., Donaldson, D.I., Snyder, A.Z., Ollinger, J.M., Buckner, R.L., & Raichle, M.E. (2001). Human brain activity time-locked to perceptual event boundaries. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 651-655.

Zacks, J., Levy, E., Tversky, B., & Schiano, D. (2002). Graphs in print. In M. Anderson, B. Meyer, & P. Olivier (Eds.), Diagrammatic representation and reasoning. London: Springer-Verlag.

Zacks, J. M., Mires, J., Tversky, B., & Hazeltine, E. (2002). Mental spatial transformations of objects and perspective. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 2, 315-322.

Zacks, J. M., Ollinger, J. M., Sheridan, M. A., & Tversky, B. (2002). A parametric study of mental spatial transformations of bodies. NeuroImage, 16, 857-872.

>  Box link to zip file containing images and instructions used for the study

Tversky, B., Morrison, J., & Zacks, J. M. (2002). On bodies and events. In A. Meltzoff & W. Prinz (Eds.), The imitative mind: Development, evolution, and brain bases (pp. 221-232). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Zacks, J. M., Gilliam, F., & Ojemann, J. G. (2003). Selective disturbance of mental rotation by cortical stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1659-1667.

>  Box link to zip file containing images and instructions used for the study

Zacks, J. M., Vettel, J. M., Michelon, P. (2003). Imagined viewer and object rotations dissociated with event-related fMRI. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 1002-1018.

> OSF repository containing stimuli

Michelon, P. & Zacks, J. M. (2003). What is primed in priming from imagery? Psychological Research, 67, 71-79.

Speer, N. K., Swallow, K. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2003). Activation of human motion processing areas during event perception. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 3, 335-345.

Swallow, K. M., Braver, T. S., Snyder, A. Z., Speer, N. K., & Zacks, J. M. (2003). Reliability of Functional Localization Using fMRI. NeuroImage, 20, 1561-1577.

Michelon, P., Snyder, A. Z., Buckner, R. L., McAvoy, M., & Zacks, J. M. (2003). Neural correlates of incongruous visual information: An event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage, 19, 1612-1626.

>  Box link to zip file containing stimuli used in the study. README file detailing what they are and how they were made

>  Box link to zip file containing the incongruous or bizarre pictures that represent combinations of two objects (chimeric objects) used in the study. This file contains more incongruous objects than were used in the study

Zacks, J. M., & Tversky, B. (2003). Structuring Information Interfaces For Procedural Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 9, 88-100.

Zacks, J. M., Michelon, P., Vettel, J. M., & Ojemann, J. G. (2004). Functional reorganization of spatial transformations after a parietal lesion. Neurology, 63, 287-292. (supplementary materials)

Zacks, J. M. (2004). Using movement and intentions to understand simple events. Cognitive Science, 28, 979-1008.

>  Box folder containing movie stimuli used in the study

Zacks, J. M., & Tversky, B. (2005). Multiple systems for spatial imagery: Transformations of objects and bodies. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5, 271-306.

>  Box link to zip file containing line drawings of bodies and phones in different “poses” and different orientations

>  Box link to zip file containing photographs of bodies and objects in different orientations

>  Box link to zip file containing photographs of bodies and objects, only upright orientations included for faster downloading

Zacks, J. M., & Michelon, P. (2005). Transformations of visuospatial images. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 4, 96-118.

Fox, M. D., Snyder, A. Z., Zacks, J. M., & Raichle, M. E. (2005). Coherent spontaneous activity accounts for trial-to-trial variability in human evoked brain responses. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 23-25.

Speer, N. K., & Zacks, J. M. (2005). Temporal changes as event boundaries: Processing and memory consequences of narrative time shifts. Journal of Memory and Language, 53, 125-140.

>  Box folder containing PDF versions of stories used in all experiments for this study

Zacks, J. M., Speer, N. K., Vettel, J. M., & Jacoby, L. J. (2006). Event understanding and memory in healthy aging and dementia of the Alzheimer type. Psychology and Aging, 21, 466-482.

>  Box folder containing zip files of movie and still frame stimuli used in both experiments for this study

Zacks, J. M., Swallow, K. M., Vettel, J. M., & McAvoy, M. P. (2006). Visual motion and the neural correlates of event perception. Brain Research, 1076, 150-162.

>  Box folder containing movie stimuli used in the study

Michelon, P. & Zacks, J. M. (2006). Two kinds of visual perspective-taking. Perception and Psychophysics, 68, 327-337.

Michelon, P., Vettel, J. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2006). Lateral somatotopic organization during imagined and prepared movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 95, 811-822.

Speer, N. K., Zacks, J. M., & Reynolds, J. R. (2007). Human brain activity time-locked to narrative event boundaries. Psychological Science, 18, 449-455.

>  Box folder containing the stories used in the study

Reynolds, J. R., Zacks, J. M., & Braver, T. S. (2007). A computational model of event segmentation from perceptual prediction. Cognitive Science, 31, 613-643.

>  Box link to folder containing an archive of the model and stimuli (see included README file)

Zacks, J. M., & Swallow, K. M. (2007). Event segmentation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 80-84.

Zacks, J. M., Speer, N. K., Swallow, K. M., Braver, T. S., & Reynolds, J. R. (2007). Event perception: A mind/brain perspective. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 273-293.

Zacks, J. M. (2008). Neuroimaging studies of mental rotation: A meta-analysis and review. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Yarkoni, T., Speer, N. K., Balota, D. A., McAvoy, M. P., Zacks, J. M. (2008). Pictures of a thousand words: Investigating the neural mechanisms of reading with extremely rapid event-related fMRI. NeuroImage, 42, 973-987.

Zacks, J. M. (2008). Event perception. Scholarpedia, 3, 3837.

Yarkoni, T., Speer, N. K., Zacks, J. M. (2008). Neural substrates of narrative comprehension and memory. Neuroimage, 41, 1408-1425.

>  Box link to a zip folder containing the materials used in the study

Kurby, C. A. & Zacks, J. M. (2008). Segmentation in the perception and memory of events. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 72-79.

Swallow, K. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2008). Sequences learned without awareness can orient attention during the perception of human activity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Tversky, B., Zacks, J. M., & Martin, B. (2008). The structure of experience. In T. F. Shipley & J. M. Zacks (Eds.), Understanding events: From perception to action. (pp. 436-464).

Zacks, J. M., & Sargent, J.Q. (2009). Event perception: A theory and its application to clinical neuroscience. In B.H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 53 (pp. 253-299). Burlington: Elsevier.

Zacks, J. M., Kumar, S., & Abrams, R. A., Mehta, R. (2009). Using movement and intentions to understand human activity. Cognition, 112, 201-216.

>  Box folder containing the movie stimuli used in the study

Zacks, J. M., & Magliano, J. P. (2009). Film understanding and cognitive neuroscience. In D. P. Melcher & F. Bacci (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Speer, N. K., Reynolds, J. R., Swallow, K. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2009). Reading stories activates neural representations of perceptual and motor experiences. Psychological Science, 20, 989-999.

>  Box folder containing the stories used in the study

Swallow, K. M., Zacks, J. M., & Abrams, R. A. (2009). Event boundaries in perception affect memory encoding and updating. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 236-257.

>  Box folder containing Event and Object Tests (see Appendix B)

Zacks, J., Speer, N., Reynolds, J.R. (2009). Segmentation in reading and film comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 307-327.

>  Box folder containing zip files of stimuli used in the study

> Coding files for the movie stimuli

Swallow, K. M., Barch, D. M., Head, D., Maley, C. J., Holder, D. & Zacks, J. M. (2010). Changes in events alter how people remember recent information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1052-1064.

Zacks, J. M., Speer, N. K., Swallow, K. M. & Maley, C. J. (2010). The brain’s cutting-room floor: segmentation of narrative cinema. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, ArtID 168.

Zacks, J. M. (2010). How we organize our experience into events. Psychological Science Agenda, 24.

Yu, A.B. & Zacks, J.M. (2011). The role of animacy in spatial transformations. Memory & Cognition, 38 (7), 982-993.

Magliano, J.P., Kopp, K., Windy McNerney, M., Radvansky, G.A., & Zacks, J.M. (2011). Aging and perceived event structure as a function of modality. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 19(1-2), 264-282.