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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
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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. (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.
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> Preregistration
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Bezdek, M.A., Butler, A.C., and Zacks, J.M. (in press). Event memory in fact and fiction. In M.J. Kahana & A.D. Wagner (Eds.), Oxford handbook of memory (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zqkv2
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
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
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
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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
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.
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
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
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., 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., & 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., 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. (2020). Event perception and memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 71:1, 165-191.
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
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
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
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., 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.