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Zacks, J.M., Kurby, C.A., Eisenberg, M.L., Haroutunian, N. (2011). Prediction error associated with the perceptual segmentation of naturalistic events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 4057-4066.

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Tversky, B., Zacks, JM, Morrison, JB, Hard, BM (2011). Talking about events. Event Representation in Language and Cognition (Bohnemeyer, J. & Perdersen, E., Eds).

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Radvansky, G.A. & Zacks, J. M. (2011). Event perception. WIREs Cognitive Science, 2(6), 608-620.

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Huff, M., Papenmeier, F., & Zacks, J.M. (2012). Visual target detection is impaired at event boundaries. Visual Cognition, 20(7), 848-864.

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Kurby, C.A. & Zacks, J.M. (2012). Starting from scratch and building brick by brick in comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 40(5), 812-826.

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Sargent, J. Q., Zacks, J. M., Hambrick, D. Z., Zacks, R. T., Head, D., Kurby, C. A., et al.. (2013). Event segmentation ability uniquely predicts memory across the lifespan. Cognition, 129(2), 241-255.

Box folder containing zip files of the movie stimuli

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Bailey, H. R., Kurby, C. A., Giovannetti, T. & Zacks, J. M. (2013). Action perception predicts action performance. Neuropsychologia, 51(11), 2294-2304.

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Kurby, C. A. & Zacks, J. M. (2013). The activation of modality-specific representations in naturalistic discourse processing. Brain & Language, 216, 338-349.

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Bailey, H. R., Zacks, J. M., Hambrick, D. Z., Zacks, R. T., Head, D., Kurby, C. A., & Sargent, J. Q. (2013). Medial temporal lobe volume predicts elders’ everyday memory. Psychological Science, 24(7), 1113-1122.

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Yu, A. B., Abrams, R. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2014). Limits on action priming by pictures of objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 1861-1873.

> OSF repository containing the full stimulus set

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Mereu, S., Zacks, J. M., Kurby, C. A., & Lleras, A. (2014). The role of prediction in perception: evidence from interrupted visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 1372-1389.

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McAleer, P., Pollick, F. E., Crabbe, F., Love, S. A. & Zacks, J. M. (2014). The neural correlates of biological motion perception in naturalistic events. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 307-318.

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Bailey, H. R., & Zacks, J. M. (2015). Situation model updating in young and older adults: Global versus incremental mechanisms. Psychology and Aging, 30(2), 232-244.

Box folder containing zip files of stories in both Word (.doc) and PDF (.pdf) format.

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Bailey, H. R., Sargent, J. Q., Flores, S., Nowotny, P., Goate, A., & Zacks, J. M. (2015). APOE e4 genotype predicts memory for everyday activities. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition: A Journal on Normal and Dysfunctional Development.

Box folder containing movie stimuli and their respective recall task materials (zip files)

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Gold, D. A., Zacks, J. M., & Flores, S. (2016). Effects of cues to event segmentation on subsequent memory. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2.

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Eisenberg, M. L., & Zacks, J. M. (2016). Ambient and focal visual processing of naturalistic activity. Journal of Vision, 16(2), 5.

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Eisenberg, M. L., Sargent, Jesse Q., & Zacks, J. M. (2016). Posttraumatic stress and the comprehension of everyday activity. Collabra, 2(1), 1–10.

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Zacks, J. M., Kurby, C. A., Landazabal, C. S., Krueger, F., & Grafman, J. (2016). Effects of penetrating traumatic brain injury on event segmentation and memory. Cortex, 74, 233-246.

> Box folder containing the movie stimuli

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Yu, A. B., & Zacks, J. M. (2016). How are bodies special? Effects of body features on spatial reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, (6), 1210–1226.

> Box folder containing stimuli and instructions (zip file)

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Zacks, J. M. (2017). Events in mind, media, and memory. In J. M. Zacks & H. A. Taylor (Eds.), Representations in mind and world (pp. 186-204). New York: Psychology Press.

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Zacks, J. M., Mar, R. A., & Calarco, N. (2017). The cognitive neuroscience of discourse: Covered ground and new directions. In M. F. Shober, D. N. Rapp, & M. A. Britt (Eds.), Routledge handbook of discourse processes (2nd ed., pp. 269–295). New York: Routledge.

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Yu, A. B., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Transformations and representations supporting spatial perspective taking. Spatial Cognition & Computation.

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Bailey, H. R., Kurby, C. A., Sargent, J. Q., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Attentional focus affects how events are segmented and updated in narrative reading. Memory & Cognition, 1–16.

> OSF repository containing the materials used in this study

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Richmond, L. L., Gold, D. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Event perception: Translations and applicationsJournal of applied research in memory and cognition6(2), 111-120.

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Radvansky, G. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Event boundaries in memory and cognitionCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences17, 133-140.

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Flores, S., Bailey, H. R., Eisenberg, M. L., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Event segmentation improves event memory up to one month laterJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition43(8), 1183.

> OSF repository containing stimuli and data

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Wahlheim C, Zacks J. Individual Variation in Memory and Cognition. (2018). Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7(4):514-517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.10.001.

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Wahlheim, C. N., & Zacks, J. M. (2018). Memory guides the processing of event changes for older and younger adultsJournal of Experimental Psychology: General.

> OSF repository containing data, analyses, and stimuli

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Eisenberg, M. L., Zacks, J. M., & Flores, S. (2018). Dynamic prediction during perception of everyday eventsCognitive Research: Principles and Implications3(1), 53.

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Richmond, L. L., Sargent, J. Q., Flores, S., & Zacks, J. M. (2018). Age differences in spatial memory for mediated environments. Psychology and Aging, 33(6), 892-903.

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Kurby, C. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2019). Age differences in the perception of goal structure in everyday activity. Psychology and Aging, 34(2), 187–201. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000321

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Zheng, Y., Zacks, J. M., & Markson, L. (2020). The development of event perception and memory. Cognitive Development, 54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100848

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Franklin, N. T., Norman, K. A., Ranganath, C., Zacks, J. M., & Gershman, S. J. (2020). Structured Event Memory: A neuro-symbolic model of event cognition. Psychological Review, 127(3), 327-361. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000177

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Zacks, J. M. (2020). Event perception and memoryAnnual Review of Psychology, 71:1, 165-191

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Stawarczyk, D., Wahlheim, C. N., Etzel, J. A., Snyder, A. Z., & Zacks, J. M. (2020). Aging and the encoding of event changes: The role of neural activity pattern reinstatement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(47), 29346. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918063117

> OSF repository containing data and analyses

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Zacks, J. M., & Franconeri, S. L. (2020). Designing Graphs for Decision-Makers. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7(1), 52–63. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732219893712

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Stawarczyk, D., Bezdek, M. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2021). Event Representations and Predictive Processing: The Role of the Midline Default Network Core. Topics in Cognitive Science, 13(1), 164–186. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12450

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Zacks, J. M., Bezdek, M. A., & Cunningham, G. E. (2021). Knowledge and the reliability of constructive memory. Memory. https://doi.org.10.1080/09658211.2020.1871022

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Kurby, C. A. & Zacks, J. M. (2021). Priming of movie content is modulated by event boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001085

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Hermann, M. M., Wahlheim, C. N., Alexander, T. R., & Zacks, J. M. (2021). The role of prior-event retrieval in encoding changed event features. Memory & Cognition, 49(7), 1387-1404. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01173-2

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Cohn-Sheehy, B. I., Delarazan, A. I., Crivelli-Decker, J. E., Reagh, Z. M., Mundada, N. S., Yonelinas, A. P., Zacks, J. M., & Ranganath, C. (2021). Narratives bridge the divide between distant events in episodic memory. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01178-x

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Cohn-Sheehy B.I., Delarazan A.I., Reagh Z.M., Crivelli-Decker J.E., Kim K., Barnett A.J., Zacks J.M., Ranganath C. (2021). The hippocampus constructs narrative memories across distant eventsCurrent Biology, 31(22):4935-4945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.013.

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Franconeri S.L., Padilla L.M., Shah P., Zacks J.M., Hullman J. (2021). The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 22(3):110-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006211051956