Jeff Zacks studies perception, memory, movies, and reading in the mind and the brain—including brains that are developing, aging, and disordered.
Zacks studies cognition in naturalistic settings such as event understanding, navigation, and the brain's processing of film and media. One particular research focus is how cognition changes with healthy aging and with age-related neurological disorders. To pursue these questions, his laboratory uses behavioral tasks, eye-tracking, neuroimaging, and computational modeling.