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For many studies, links to stimulus materials and/or data sets are included here; for more recent projects, please see our OSF page. If you have any problems with the archives or if you are looking for a stimulus set that isn’t here or on OSF, please send us an email. All stimuli are provided without charge by the Dynamic Cognition Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. Unrestricted permission is granted for academic research. However, copyright is retained by the authors. Permission is not granted to redistribute these materials; instead, please direct others to this website. Permission is also not granted to use these materials for commercial purposes without express permission.
Zacks, J. M. (2008). Neuroimaging studies of mental rotation: A meta-analysis and review. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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., & Swallow, K. M. (2007). Event segmentation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 80-84.
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)
Speer, N. K., Zacks, J. M., & Reynolds, J. R. (2007). Human brain activity time-locked to narrative event boundaries. Psychological Science, 18, 449-455.
Michelon, P., Vettel, J. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2006). Lateral somatotopic organization during imagined and prepared movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 95, 811-822.
Michelon, P. & Zacks, J. M. (2006). Two kinds of visual perspective-taking. Perception and Psychophysics, 68, 327-337.
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.
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.
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
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.
Zacks, J. M., & Michelon, P. (2005). Transformations of visuospatial images. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 4, 96-118.
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. (2004). Using movement and intentions to understand simple events. Cognitive Science, 28, 979-1008.
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., & Tversky, B. (2003). Structuring Information Interfaces For Procedural Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 9, 88-100.
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.
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.
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.
Michelon, P. & Zacks, J. M. (2003). What is primed in priming from imagery? Psychological Research, 67, 71-79.
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.
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
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., 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
Zacks, J. M., Mires, J., Tversky, B., & Hazeltine, E. (2002). Mental spatial transformations of objects and perspective. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 2, 315-322.