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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jeffrey M. Zacks is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a significant concentration in cognitive neuroscience.

Their work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, artificial intelligence, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Key research topics include memory processes and influences, memory and neural mechanisms, action observation and synchronization, identity, memory, and therapy, neural and behavioral psychology studies, child and animal learning development, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zacks have included Matthew A. Bezdek, Kenneth A. Norman, Zachariah M. Reagh, Uri Hasson, and Christopher N. Wahlheim.

Several recent publications by or related to their work include:

  • Event Perception and Memory, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works, 2021, Gothic.net
  • Structured Event Memory: A neuro-symbolic model of event cognition., 2020, Psychological Review
  • The hippocampus constructs narrative memories across distant events, 2021, Current Biology
  • On the road to ITER NBIs: SPIDER improvement after first operation and MITICA construction progress, 2021, Fusion Engineering and Design

Zacks has published multiple papers in prominent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, Fusion Engineering and Design, Memory & Cognition, and Cognitive Research Principles and Implications.

The scientist's contributions have been recognized with fellowships from major organizations, including the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2020 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Event structure in perception and conception.

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Barbara Tversky

  • Event perception: a mind-brain perspective.

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Nicole K. Speer;Khena M. Swallow;Todd S. Braver

  • Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Barbara Tversky;Gowri Iyer

  • Segmentation in the perception and memory of events

    Christopher A. Kurby;Jeffrey M. Zacks

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

    Michael D Fox;Abraham Z Snyder;Jeffrey M Zacks;Marcus E Raichle

  • Human brain activity time-locked to perceptual event boundaries.

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Todd S. Braver;Margaret A. Sheridan;David I. Donaldson

  • Neuroimaging studies of mental rotation: A meta-analysis and review

    Jeffrey M. Zacks

  • Reading Stories Activates Neural Representations of Visual and Motor Experiences

    Nicole K. Speer;Jeremy R. Reynolds;Khena M. Swallow;Jeffrey M. Zacks

  • Segmentation in reading and film comprehension.

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Nicole K. Speer;Jeremy R. Reynolds

  • Event boundaries in perception affect memory encoding and updating.

    Khena M. Swallow;Jeffrey M. Zacks;Richard A. Abrams

  • Bars and lines: a study of graphic communication.

    Jeff Zacks;Barbara Tversky

  • The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

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  • Event Segmentation

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  • Mental spatial transformations of objects and perspective

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Jon Mires;Barbara Tversky;Eliot Hazeltine

  • Two kinds of visual perspective taking.

    Pascale Michelon;Jeffrey M. Zacks

  • Imagined transformations of bodies: an fMRI investigation.

    Jeff Zacks;Bart Rypma;J.D.E Gabrieli;Barbara Tversky

  • Human Brain Activity Time-Locked to Narrative Event Boundaries

    Nicole K. Speer;Jeffrey M. Zacks;Jeremy R. Reynolds

  • Using movement and intentions to understand simple events

    Jeffrey M. Zacks

  • Event Perception and Memory.

    Jeffrey M Zacks

  • Event Boundaries in Memory and Cognition.

    Gabriel A Radvansky;Jeffrey M Zacks

  • The Impact of Continuity Editing in Narrative Film on Event Segmentation

    Joseph P. Magliano;Jeffrey M. Zacks

  • Transformations of visuospatial images.

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Pascale Michelon

  • The brain's cutting-room floor: segmentation of narrative cinema

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Nicole K. Speer;Khena M. Swallow;Khena M. Swallow;Corey John Maley;Corey John Maley

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Tversky
Barbara Tversky Columbia University
Todd S. Braver
Todd S. Braver Washington University in St. Louis
Gabriel A. Radvansky
Gabriel A. Radvansky University of Notre Dame
Jean M. Vettel
Jean M. Vettel United States Army Research Laboratory
Abraham Z. Snyder
Abraham Z. Snyder Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
David A. Balota
David A. Balota Washington University in St. Louis
Randy L. Buckner
Randy L. Buckner Harvard University
Richard A. Abrams
Richard A. Abrams Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas F. Shipley
Thomas F. Shipley Temple University

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