Daniel Schacter

Education

And Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1977 and 1981 respectively. His Doctor of Philosophy thesis was supervised by Endel Tulving. He has also studied the effects of aging on memory.

Career

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 & brain distortion. Schacter received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974, Master of Arts In 1978, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford"s Department of Experimental Psychology.

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); 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. 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.

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

Achievements

• He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. In 2005 Schacter received the National Academy of Sciences, USA Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to membership in National Academy of Sciences, USA in 2013.

Works

• Other Work

  • Books Fiske, Susan T. Schacter, Daniel L.

  • Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn (2004). Annual review of psychology.
    
    Palo Alto, Calif: Annual Reviews. . Fiske, Susan T. Schacter, Daniel L.

  • Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn (2008).
    
    Annual review of psychology (volume 59). Palo Alto, Calif: Annual Reviews. . Fiske, Susan T.
    
    Schacter, Daniel L.

  • Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn (2009). Annual review of psychology (volume 60). Palo Alto, Calif: Annual Reviews.
    
    . Fiske, Susan T. Schacter, Daniel L.

  • Sternberg, Robert J. (2010). Annual review of psychology (volume 61).
    
    Palo Alto, Calif: Annual Reviews. . Fiske, Susan T. Schacter, Daniel L.

  • Taylor, Shelley E. (2011).
    
    Annual review of psychology (volume 62). Palo Alto, Calif: Annual Reviews. . Fiske, Susan T.
    
    Schacter, Daniel L.

  • Taylor, Shelley E. (2012). Annual review of psychology (volume 63). Palo Alto, Calif: Annual Reviews.

Membership

American Academy of Arts and Sciences.