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Jeffrey M. Zacks

Edgar James Swift Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Radiology, Washington …
Verified email at wustl.edu
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Event structure in perception and conception.

JM Zacks, B Tversky - Psychological bulletin, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
… More recently, we have collected direct evidence suggesting that the human perceptual
system does in fact actively encode ongoing activity in terms of partonomic hierarchies (Zacks, …

Event perception: a mind-brain perspective.

JM Zacks, NK Speer, KM Swallow, TS Braver… - Psychological …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
… Graphical representation of the inputs and outputs to the Reynolds, Zacks, and Braver (in
press) neural network model. A–D: Four consecutive frames of an actor chopping down a tree. …

Segmentation in the perception and memory of events

CA Kurby, JM Zacks - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008 - cell.com
People make sense of continuous streams of observed behavior in part by segmenting them
into events. Event segmentation seems to be an ongoing component of everyday perception…

Human brain activity time-locked to perceptual event boundaries

JM Zacks, TS Braver, MA Sheridan, DI Donaldson… - Nature …, 2001 - nature.com
Temporal structure has a major role in human understanding of everyday events. Observers
are able to segment ongoing activity into temporal parts and sub-parts that are reliable, …

Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events.

JM Zacks, B Tversky, G Iyer - Journal of experimental psychology …, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
… Again, syntactic features were coded by two judges and disagreements were adjudicated
by Jeff Zacks. Polysemy counts were obtained using WordNet (Fellbaum, 1998, Version 1.6), …

Coherent spontaneous activity accounts for trial-to-trial variability in human evoked brain responses

MD Fox, AZ Snyder, JM Zacks, ME Raichle - Nature neuroscience, 2006 - nature.com
Trial-to-trial variability in the blood oxygen level–dependent (BOLD) response of functional
magnetic resonance imaging has been shown to be relevant to human perception and …

Neuroimaging studies of mental rotation: a meta-analysis and review

JM Zacks - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2008 - direct.mit.edu
Mental rotation is a hypothesized imagery process that has inspired controversy regarding
the substrate of human spatial reasoning. Two central questions about mental rotation remain…

Event segmentation

JM Zacks, KM Swallow - Current directions in psychological …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
One way to understand something is to break it up into parts. New research indicates that
segmenting ongoing activity into meaningful events is a core component of perception and that …

Reading stories activates neural representations of visual and motor experiences

…, JR Reynolds, KM Swallow, JM Zacks - Psychological …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
To understand and remember stories, readers integrate their knowledge of the world with
information in the text. Here we present functional neuroimaging evidence that neural systems …

[BOOK][B] Event cognition

GA Radvansky, JM Zacks - 2014 - books.google.com
Zacks provide the first integrated framework for event cognition and attempt to synthesize …
Radvansky and Zacks have written this book with a diverse readership in mind. It is intended …