Journal Articles
publications by Jeff and collaborators
Gold, D. A., Zacks, J. M., & Flores, S. (2016). Effects of cues to event segmentation on subsequent memory. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2.
Kurby, C. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2018). Preserved neural event segmentation in healthy older adults. Psychology and aging, 33(2), 232.
> Box folder containing the full stimulus set
> OSF repository containing behavioral data
Radvansky, G. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Event boundaries in memory and cognition. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 17, 133-140.
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
> OSF repository containing the materials used in this analysis
Richmond, L. L., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Constructing experience: Event models from perception to action. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(12), 962–980.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.08.005
Flores, S., Bailey, H. R., Eisenberg, M. L., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Event segmentation improves event memory up to one month later. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(8), 1183.
Richmond, L. L., Gold, D. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Event perception: Translations and applications. Journal of applied research in memory and cognition, 6(2), 111-120.
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
Yu, A. B., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Transformations and representations supporting spatial perspective taking. Spatial Cognition & Computation.
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.
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.
Eisenberg, M. L., Sargent, Jesse Q., & Zacks, J. M. (2016). Posttraumatic stress and the comprehension of everyday activity. Collabra, 2(1), 1–10.
Eisenberg, M. L., & Zacks, J. M. (2016). Ambient and focal visual processing of naturalistic activity. Journal of Vision, 16(2), 5.
Wahlheim, C. N., & Zacks, J. M. (2018). Memory guides the processing of event changes for older and younger adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kurby, C. A. & Zacks, J. M. (2013). The activation of modality-specific representations in naturalistic discourse processing. Brain & Language, 216, 338-349.
Bailey, H. R., Kurby, C. A., Giovannetti, T. & Zacks, J. M. (2013). Action perception predicts action performance. Neuropsychologia, 51(11), 2294-2304.
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.
Kurby, C.A. & Zacks, J.M. (2012). Starting from scratch and building brick by brick in comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 40(5), 812-826.
Huff, M., Papenmeier, F., & Zacks, J.M. (2012). Visual target detection is impaired at event boundaries. Visual Cognition, 20(7), 848-864.
Wahlheim, C. N., Eisenberg, M. L., Stawarczyk, D., & Zacks, J. M. (2022). Understanding everyday events: Predictive looking errors drive memory updating. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211053596
> PsyArXiv preprint
> OSF repository containing stimuli, data, and analyses
Kumar M., Goldstein A., Michelmann S., Zacks, J.M., Hasson U., & Norman K.A. (2023). Bayesian Surprise Predicts Human Event Segmentation in Story Listening. Cognitive Science, 47(10). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13343.
Stawarczyk, D., Wahlheim, C.N., & Zacks, J.M. (2023). Adult age differences in event memory updating: The roles of prior-event retrieval and prediction. Psychology and Aging, 38(6), 519-533. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000767.
> OSF repository containing stimuli, data, and analyses
> OSF preregistration
Eisenberg M.L., Rodebaugh T.L., Flores S., Zacks J.M. (2023). Impaired prediction of ongoing events in posttraumatic stress disorder. Neuropsychologia 188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108636.
Pitts, B.L., Eisenberg, M.L., Bailey, H.R., Zacks, J.M. (2022). PTSD is associated with impaired event processing and memory for everyday events. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 7(1):35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00386-6
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
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 events. Current Biology, 31(22):4935-4945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.013.
Pitts, B.L., Eisenberg, M.L., Bailey, H.R., Zacks J.M. (2023). Cueing natural event boundaries improves memory in people with post-traumatic stress disorder. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 8, 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-023-00478-x.
Bezdek, M. A., Nguyen T. T., Hall C. S., Braver T. S., Bobick A. F., & Zacks, J. M. (2022). The multi-angle extended three-dimensional activities (META) stimulus set: A tool for studying event cognition. Behavior Research Methods https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01980-8.
> PsyArXiv preprint
> Preregistration
> OSF repository containing stimuli, data, and analyses
Richmond, L. L., Sargent, J. Q., & Zacks, J. M. (2022). Virtual navigation in healthy aging: Activation during learning and deactivation during retrieval predicts successful memory for spatial locations. Neuropsychologica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108298
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.
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
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
Radvansky, G.A. & Zacks, J. M. (2011). Event perception. WIREs Cognitive Science, 2(6), 608-620.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zacks, J. M. (2020). Event perception and memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 71:1, 165-191.
Sargent, J. Q., Zacks, J. M., Hambrick, D. Z., & Lin, N. (2018). Event memory uniquely predicts memory for large-scale space. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0860-2
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.
Eisenberg, M. L., Zacks, J. M., & Flores, S. (2018). Dynamic prediction during perception of everyday events. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3(1), 53.
Bangert, A. S., Kurby, C. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2019). The influence of everyday events on prospective timing “in the moment.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1526-6