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Daniel Schacter is a professor of psychology at Harvard University and the author of several books on memory and cognition. He is best known for his work on memory and forgetting, and his research has been influential in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and clinical psychology. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Medal of Science, the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing, and the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. Schacter was born in Scarsdale, New York, and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1974. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978. After completing his doctoral studies, Schacter joined the faculty at Harvard University, where he has remained ever since. Schacter's research focuses on the nature of memory and forgetting, and he has written extensively on the subject. He is the author of several books, including The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (2001), Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past (1996), and The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory (1999). He has also published numerous articles in scientific journals, and his research has been featured in popular media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio. Schacter is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Medal of Science, the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing, and the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. As of 2021, Daniel Schacter's net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million.

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Occupation Professor of psychology at Harvard University, author
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 17 June 1952
Birthday 17 June
Birthplace Scarsdale, New York
Nationality United States

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2012

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 retracting the past.

1996

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).

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

1987

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.

1974

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 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.

1952

Daniel Lawrence Schacter (born June 17, 1952) is an American 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 and brain distortion, and memory and future simulation.