Daniel Schacter: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Addbot (talk | contribs)
Bots
2,838,809 edits
m Bot: Migrating 4 interwiki links, now provided by Wikidata on d:q369879 (Report Errors)
mNo edit summary
 
(47 intermediate revisions by 37 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Infobox person
⚫
'''Daniel Lawrence Schacter''' (born June 17, 1952 in New York) is an American [[Psychology|psychologist]]. He is a [[Professor]] of Psychology at [[Harvard University]]. His research has focused on psychological and biological aspects of human [[memory]] and [[amnesia]], with a particular emphasis on the distinction between conscious and nonconscious forms of memory and, more recently, on brain mechanisms of memory distortion.
⚫
| name = Daniel Schacter
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|06|17}}
| birth_place = [[Scarsdale, New York]]
| death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) -->
| death_place =
| alma_mater = [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] <small>([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])</small><br>[[University of Toronto]] <small>([[Master of Arts|MA]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])</small>
| nationality = American
| other_names =
| known_for = Human [[memory]] and [[amnesia]]
| occupation = Professor of psychology at [[Harvard University]], author
⚫
}}
⚫
'''Daniel Lawrence Schacter''' (born June 17, 1952) is an American [[psychologist]]. He is [[William R. Kenan Jr.|William R. Kenan, Jr.]]'s endowed professor of psychology at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professorships & Endowments |url=https://kenancharitabletrust.org/professorships-endowments/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=WILLIAM R. KENAN, JR. CHARITABLE TRUST |language=en-US}}</ref> His research has focused on psychological and biological aspects of human [[memory]] and [[amnesia]], with a particular emphasis on the distinction between conscious and [[Subconscious|nonconscious]] forms of memory and, more recently, on brain mechanisms of memory and brain distortion, and memory and future simulation.


==Early life==
⚫
He received his B.A. from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] in 1974, M.A. and Ph.D. from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1977 and 1981 respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was supervised by [[Endel Tulving]]. In 1978, he was a visiting researcher at the [[University of Oxford]]'s Department of Experimental Psychology. He has also studied the effects of aging on memory. His research uses both cognitive testing and brain imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Schacter has written three books, edited seven volumes, and published over 200 scientific articles and chapters. His books include: ''Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past'' (1996); ''Forgotten ideas, neglected pioneers: [[Richard Semon]] and the story of memory.'' (2001); ''The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers'' (2001).
Schacter received his B.A. from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] in 1974, M.A. and Ph.D. from the [[University of Toronto]] in [[Canada]] in 1977 and 1981 respectively. His Ph.D. [[thesis]] was supervised by [[Endel Tulving]]. In 1978, he was a visiting researcher at the [[University of Oxford]]'s Department of Experimental Psychology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniel Schacter |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/dschacter/home |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=scholar.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref> He has also studied the effects of aging on memory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniel L. Schacter |url=https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/daniel-l-schacter |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=psychology.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref>


==Research==
⚫
In ''[[The Seven Sins of Memory]]: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers'', Schacter identifies seven ways ("sins") that memory can fail us. The seven sins are: Transience, Absent-Mindedness, Blocking, Misattribution, Suggestibility, Persistence, and Bias. [http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct03/sins.html]
⚫
Professor Schacter's research uses both cognitive testing and brain imaging techniques such as [[positron emission tomography]] and [[functional magnetic resonance imaging]]. Schacter has written three books, edited seven volumes, and published over 200 scientific articles and chapters. His books include: ''Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past'' (1996); ''Forgotten ideas, neglected pioneers: [[Richard Semon]] and the story of memory.'' (2001);<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hnn.us/article/152111 |title=How Memory Works: Interview with Psychologist Daniel L. Schacter |publisher=[[History News Network]] |author=Robin Lindley |archive-date=September 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907073517/http://hnn.us/article/152111 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers'' (2001).


⚫
In ''[[The Seven Sins of Memory]]: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers'', Schacter identifies seven ways ("sins") that memory can "fail us". The seven sins are: Transience, Absent-Mindedness, Blocking, [[Misattribution of memory|Misattribution]], Suggestibility, Persistence, and [[Bias]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct03/sins.html|title=The seven sins of memory|website=apa.org}}</ref>
In addition to his books, Schacter publishes regularly in scientific journals. Among the topics that Schacter has investigated are: [[Alzheimer's Disease]], the [[neuroscience]] of memory, age-related memory effects, and issues related to [[false memory]]. He is widely known for his integrative reviews, including his seminal review of [[implicit memory]] in 1987. He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1996.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter S|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterS.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=10 April 2011}}</ref> In 2005 Schacter was awarded the [[NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing]] from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=Reviewing>{{cite web|title=NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_scirev|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=27 February 2011}}</ref>

In addition to his books, Schacter publishes regularly in scientific journals. Among the topics that Schacter has investigated are: [[Alzheimer's disease]], the [[neuroscience]] of memory, age-related memory effects, issues related to [[false memory]], and memory and simulation. He is widely known for his integrative reviews, including his seminal review of [[implicit memory]] in 1987.

In 2012 he said in an interview to the [[American Psychologist]] journal that our brain is like a [[Time travel|time machine]], or to be precise, it works as a [[Simulated reality|virtual reality simulator]]. He also said that our brain can imagine the [[future]] but it has difficulty in retracing the past.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/08/making-sense-of-memory/ |title=Making sense of memory |author=Taylor Beck |publisher=[[Harvard Gazette]] |date=August 16, 2012 |access-date=June 13, 2014 |archive-date=September 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923021500/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/08/making-sense-of-memory/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He has been the first author on multiple editions of the textbooks ''Psychology'' and ''Introducing Psychology'', both having six editions as of 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Psychology, 6th Edition {{!}} Macmillan Learning US |url=https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/product/Psychology/p/1319340482 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.macmillanlearning.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Introducing Psychology 6th Edition {{!}} Daniel Schacter {{!}} Macmillan Learning |url=https://store.macmillanlearning.com/ca/product/Introducing-Psychology/p/1319432212 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=store.macmillanlearning.com}}</ref>

==Honors and awards==
He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1996.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterS.pdf|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter S|publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]|access-date=April 10, 2011}}</ref> In 2005 Schacter received the [[NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing]] from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=Reviewing>{{cite web|title=NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing |url=http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/awards/scientific-reviewing.html |publisher=[[National Academy of Sciences]] |access-date=February 27, 2011 |archive-date=January 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126003933/http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/awards/scientific-reviewing.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was elected to membership in NAS in 2013.<ref name=NASAPA>{{cite web|title=Psychologists elected to National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts & Sciences|url=http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2013/06/national-academy.aspx|publisher=[[American Psychological Association]]|access-date=December 8, 2015}}</ref>

==Representative Publications==
*Buckner, R. L., Andrews‐Hanna, J. R., & Schacter, D. L. (2008). The brain's default network. ''Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences'', ''1124''(1), 1-38.
*Schacter, D. L. (1992). Priming and multiple memory systems: Perceptual mechanisms of implicit memory. ''Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience'', ''4''(3), 244–256.
*Schacter, D. L. (2008). ''Searching for memory: The brain, the mind, and the past''. Basic Books.
*Schacter, D. L., Addis, D. R., & Buckner, R. L. (2007). Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain. ''Nature Reviews Neuroscience'', ''8''(9), 657–661.
*Schacter, D. L., & Graf, P. (1986). Effects of Elaborative Processing on Implicit and Explicit Memory for New Associations. ''Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition'', ''12''(3), 432–444.
*Tulving, E., & Schacter, D. L. (1990). Priming and human memory systems. ''Science'', ''247''(4940), 301–306.


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


== External links ==
==External links==
* [http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dsweb/ Schacter's homepage at Harvard]
*[https://sites.harvard.edu/schacter-memory/ Schacter Memory Lab]


{{memory}}
{{memory}}


{{Authority control}}
{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->

⚫
| NAME = Schacter, Daniel
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American psychologist
| DATE OF BIRTH = June 17, 1952
| PLACE OF BIRTH =
| DATE OF DEATH =
| PLACE OF DEATH =
⚫
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schacter, Daniel}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schacter, Daniel}}
[[Category:1952 births]]
[[Category:1952 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from New York]]
[[Category:People from Scarsdale, New York]]
[[Category:American psychologists]]
[[Category:20th-century American psychologists]]
[[Category:American neuroscientists]]
[[Category:American cognitive neuroscientists]]
[[Category:Cognitive neuroscientists]]
[[Category:Memory researchers]]
[[Category:Memory researchers]]
[[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]]
[[Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]
[[Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]
[[Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni]]
[[Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni]]
[[Category:University of Toronto alumni]]
[[Category:University of Toronto alumni]]
[[Category:University of Toronto faculty]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto]]
[[Category:University of Arizona faculty]]
[[Category:University of Arizona faculty]]
[[Category:Harvard University faculty]]
[[Category:Harvard University Department of Psychology faculty]]
[[Category:National Academy of Sciences laureates]]
[[Category:Scarsdale High School alumni]]
[[Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences]]

[[Category:21st-century American psychologists]]
{{US-psychologist-stub}}

Latest revision as of 04:48, 22 October 2023

Daniel Schacter
Born (1952-06-17) June 17, 1952 (age 71)
Scarsdale, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA)
University of Toronto (MA and PhD)
Occupation(s)Professor of psychology at Harvard University, author
Known forHuman memory and amnesia

Daniel Lawrence Schacter (born June 17, 1952) is an American psychologist. He is William R. Kenan, Jr.'s endowed professor of psychology at Harvard University.[1] His research has focused on psychological and biological aspects of human memory and amnesia, with a particular emphasis on the distinction between conscious and nonconscious forms of memory and, more recently, on brain mechanisms of memory and brain distortion, and memory and future simulation.

Early life[edit]

Schacter received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Canada in 1977 and 1981 respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Endel Tulving. In 1978, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology.[2] He has also studied the effects of aging on memory.[3]

Research[edit]

Professor Schacter's research uses both cognitive testing and brain imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Schacter has written three books, edited seven volumes, and published over 200 scientific articles and chapters. His books include: Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past (1996); Forgotten ideas, neglected pioneers: Richard Semon and the story of memory. (2001);[4] and The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (2001).

In The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Schacter identifies seven ways ("sins") that memory can "fail us". The seven sins are: Transience, Absent-Mindedness, Blocking, Misattribution, Suggestibility, Persistence, and Bias.[5]

In addition to his books, Schacter publishes regularly in scientific journals. Among the topics that Schacter has investigated are: Alzheimer's disease, the neuroscience of memory, age-related memory effects, issues related to false memory, and memory and simulation. He is widely known for his integrative reviews, including his seminal review of implicit memory in 1987.

In 2012 he said in an interview to the American Psychologist journal that our brain is like a time machine, or to be precise, it works as a virtual reality simulator. He also said that our brain can imagine the future but it has difficulty in retracing the past.[6]

He has been the first author on multiple editions of the textbooks Psychology and Introducing Psychology, both having six editions as of 2023.[7][8]

Honors and awards[edit]

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.[9] In 2005 Schacter received the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences.[10] He was elected to membership in NAS in 2013.[11]

Representative Publications[edit]

  • Buckner, R. L., Andrews‐Hanna, J. R., & Schacter, D. L. (2008). The brain's default network. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1124(1), 1-38.
  • Schacter, D. L. (1992). Priming and multiple memory systems: Perceptual mechanisms of implicit memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 4(3), 244–256.
  • Schacter, D. L. (2008). Searching for memory: The brain, the mind, and the past. Basic Books.
  • Schacter, D. L., Addis, D. R., & Buckner, R. L. (2007). Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8(9), 657–661.
  • Schacter, D. L., & Graf, P. (1986). Effects of Elaborative Processing on Implicit and Explicit Memory for New Associations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12(3), 432–444.
  • Tulving, E., & Schacter, D. L. (1990). Priming and human memory systems. Science, 247(4940), 301–306.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Professorships & Endowments". WILLIAM R. KENAN, JR. CHARITABLE TRUST. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  2. ^ "Daniel Schacter". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  3. ^ "Daniel L. Schacter". psychology.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  4. ^ Robin Lindley. "How Memory Works: Interview with Psychologist Daniel L. Schacter". History News Network. Archived from the original on September 7, 2013.
  5. ^ "The seven sins of memory". apa.org.
  6. ^ Taylor Beck (August 16, 2012). "Making sense of memory". Harvard Gazette. Archived from the original on September 23, 2013. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  7. ^ "Psychology, 6th Edition | Macmillan Learning US". www.macmillanlearning.com. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  8. ^ "Introducing Psychology 6th Edition | Daniel Schacter | Macmillan Learning". store.macmillanlearning.com. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  9. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter S" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
  10. ^ "NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
  11. ^ "Psychologists elected to National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts & Sciences". American Psychological Association. Retrieved December 8, 2015.

External links[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Schacter&oldid=1181297773"