Event Perception and Understanding

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Magliano, J.P., & Zacks, J.M. (2011). The impact of continuity editing in narrative film on event segmentation. Cognitive Science, 35, 1-29.

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.

Kurby, C.A. & Zacks, J.M. (2011). Age differences in the perception of hierarchical structure in events. Memory & Cognition, 39, 75–91.
> OSF repository containing the materials and methods used in the experiment

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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., 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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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