Jeffrey M. Zacks
Affiliations: | Washington University, Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO |
Area:
event perception, spatial reasoning, memoryWebsite:
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"Jeffrey Zacks"Bio:
My lab studies perception and cognition using the methods of experimental psychology and neuroscience. One of our primary interests is in how people parse ongoing activity into meaningful events. The sensory world has been described as "a blooming, buzzing confusion," yet we seem to talk and think about activity as consisting of a modest number of discrete events. My lab's work suggests that this is so because specialized brain systems form stable representations that chunk intervals of time into coherent events, and chunk events into larger super-events. This segmentation is adaptive—people who don't segment activity very well also don't remember it as well later.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentorMichael J. Tarr | research assistant | Yale University | ||
Barbara Tversky | grad student | 1994-1995 | Stanford | |
Thomas K. Landauer | research scientist | 1992-1994 | ||
(Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)) |
Children
Sign in to add traineeMargaret A. Sheridan | research assistant | 1999-2001 | Washington University |
Jean Vettel | research assistant | 2001-2004 | Washington University |
Taylor Beck | research assistant | 2010-2011 | Washington University |
Christopher S Hall | research assistant | 2020-2022 | Washington University (PsychTree) |
Nicole Kathleen Speer | grad student | 2005 | Washington University |
Khena Marie Swallow | grad student | 2007 | Washington University |
Alfred Brian Yu | grad student | 2013 | Washington University |
Lauren L. Richmond | post-doc | 2013- | Washington University |
Brian A Gordon | post-doc | 2010-2014 | Washington University |
Publications
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Bezdek MA, Nguyen TT, Hall CS, et al. (2022) The multi-angle extended three-dimensional activities (META) stimulus set: A tool for studying event cognition. Behavior Research Methods |
Richmond LL, Sargent JQ, Zacks JM. (2022) Virtual navigation in healthy aging: Activation during learning and deactivation during retrieval predicts successful memory for spatial locations. Neuropsychologia. 173: 108298 |
Wahlheim CN, Eisenberg ML, Stawarczyk D, et al. (2022) Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating. Psychological Science. 9567976211053596 |
Cohn-Sheehy BI, Delarazan AI, Reagh ZM, et al. (2021) The hippocampus constructs narrative memories across distant events. Current Biology : Cb |
Kurby CA, Zacks JM. (2021) Priming of movie content is modulated by event boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition |
Cohn-Sheehy BI, Delarazan AI, Crivelli-Decker JE, et al. (2021) Narratives bridge the divide between distant events in episodic memory. Memory & Cognition |
Hermann MM, Wahlheim CN, Alexander TR, et al. (2021) The role of prior-event retrieval in encoding changed event features. Memory & Cognition |
Stawarczyk D, Wahlheim CN, Etzel JA, et al. (2020) Aging and the encoding of changes in events: The role of neural activity pattern reinstatement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117: 29346-29353 |
Franklin NT, Norman KA, Ranganath C, et al. (2020) Structured Event Memory: A neuro-symbolic model of event cognition. Psychological Review. 127: 327-361 |
Zacks JM. (2020) Event Perception and Memory. Annual Review of Psychology. 71: 165-191 |