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Jeff Zacks

Jeffrey Zacks is an American psychologist. He is currently the chair in Psychology and the Edgar James Swift Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He specializes in research on event segmentation, media processing, and cognition in natural settings. His laboratory at Washington University focuses on the development of neurological disorders through the use of various psychological testing methods.

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Jeffrey Zacks
Alma materStanford University
Yale University
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
ThesisEvent structure perception: Studies in perceiving, remembering, and communicating (1999)
Barbara Tversky

Jeffrey Zacks is an American psychologist. He is currently the chair in Psychology and the Edgar James Swift Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.1 He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.2 He specializes in research on event segmentation, media processing, and cognition in natural settings. His laboratory at Washington University focuses on the development of neurological disorders through the use of various psychological testing methods.3

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  1. "Jeffrey Zacks". psych.wustl.edu. May 4, 2017.
  2. "Zacks, Jeff". aaas.org. Archived from the original on April 23, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  3. Sciences, Psychological & Brain (2017-05-04). "Jeffrey Zacks". Psychological & Brain Sciences. Retrieved 2023-11-03.