Daniel Lawrence Schacter was born on June 17,1952 and is an American psychologist.
11 Facts About Daniel Schacter
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Daniel Schacter's 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.
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Daniel Schacter has studied the effects of aging on memory.
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Daniel Schacter has written three books, edited seven volumes, and published over 200 scientific articles and chapters.
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Daniel Schacter's books include: Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past ; Forgotten ideas, neglected pioneers: Richard Semon and the story of memory.
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Daniel Schacter is widely known for his integrative reviews, including his seminal review of implicit memory in 1987.
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Daniel Schacter said that our brain can imagine the future but it has difficulty in retracing the past.
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Daniel Schacter has been the first author on multiple editions of the textbooks Psychology and Introducing Psychology, both having six editions as of 2023.
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Daniel Schacter was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.
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In 2005 Daniel Schacter received the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences.
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Daniel Schacter was elected to membership in NAS in 2013.