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Jeffrey Zacks
Titles
Associate Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Radiology

Office Contact Information

Degree
PHD, Stanford University
Degree
MA, Stanford University
Degree
BA, Yale University
Office
Psychology Building 419B
Mailbox

Campus Box 1125

Phone
(314) 935-8454
Email
URL
Personal Site

Research specialization

Publications
  • Fox, M. D., Snyder, A. Z., Zacks, J. M., & Raichle, M. E. (2005). Coherent spontaneous fluctuations in neuronal activity account for response variability in the human brain. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 23-25.
  • Zacks, J. M. & Tversky, B. (2005). Multiple systems for spatial imagery: Transformations of objects and bodies, Spatial Cognition & Computation, 5, 271-306
  • 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 & Psychophysics, 68, 327-337.
  • Zacks, J. M., Swallow, K. M., Vettel, J. M., & McAvoy, M. P. (2006). Visual movement and the neural correlates of event perception, Brain Research, 1076, 150-162.
Courses
  • Experimental Psychology
  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film
  • Current Debates in Psychology
Research Interests

Professor Zacks studies perception and cognition using behavioral experiments, functional MRI, computational modeling, and testing of neurological patients. One line of research examines how people parse the continuous stream of behavior into meaningful events, and how this affects memory and cognition. Another line examines how mental imagery contributes to reasoning about spatial relations, especially how mental representations of one's body are updated during imagery and reasoning.

Departments
  • Philosophy
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology