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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.
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.
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.
Eisenberg, M. L., Sargent, Jesse Q., & Zacks, J. M. (2016). Posttraumatic stress and the comprehension of everyday activity. Collabra, 2(1), 1–10.
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.
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. (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.
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.
Yu, A. B., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Transformations and representations supporting spatial perspective taking. Spatial Cognition & Computation.
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
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.
Radvansky, G. A., & Zacks, J. M. (2017). Event boundaries in memory and cognition. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 17, 133-140.
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., & 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
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.
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
Wahlheim, C. N., & Zacks, J. M. (2018). Memory guides the processing of event changes for older and younger adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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
Eisenberg, M. L., Zacks, J. M., & Flores, S. (2018). Dynamic prediction during perception of everyday events. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3(1), 53.
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.
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
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
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
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
Zacks, J. M. (2020). Event perception and memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 71:1, 165-191.
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
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
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., Bezdek, M. A., & Cunningham, G. E. (2021). Knowledge and the reliability of constructive memory. Memory. https://doi.org.10.1080/09658211.2020.1871022
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
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
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
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.
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
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