Publication Types
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
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
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.
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
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.
Zacks, J. M., & Tversky, B. (2003). Structuring Information Interfaces For Procedural Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 9, 88-100.
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
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.
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 photographs of bodies and objects in different orientations
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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. (2020). Event perception and memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 71:1, 165-191.
Zacks, J. M., Kumar, S., & Abrams, R. A., Mehta, R. (2009). Using movement and intentions to understand human activity. Cognition, 112, 201-216.
Zacks, J. M., & Magliano, J. P. (2009). Film understanding and cognitive neuroscience. In D. P. Melcher & F. Bacci (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press.
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
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.
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)
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
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
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
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.