Our research explores human memory - impacts of aging, the nature of memory distortions & how individuals use memory to imagine possible future events
Joined August 2022
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
4 Jun 2025
Excited to see our work highlighted in today's New York Times article exploring the potential benefits of intentional mind wandering in creative thinking!
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
12 Dec 2024
New research in collaboration with @LucasBellaiche now published in the Creativity Research Journal -- Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
9 May 2024
@TarekAmerPhD and I are recruiting a fully funded postdoc to work on studies of memory, visual attention, and aging @uvic. Please share and get in touch!
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
29 Apr 2024
Excited to see this one out! Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation. @SchacterLab
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
16 Apr 2024
Fantastic and touching symposium remembering Endel Tulving. Great history of his childhood to his many many many contributions to memory! Lots of Endelisms! @SchacterLab @CNSmtg #cns2024
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
16 Apr 2024
An incredible line-up for the @CNSmtg session in honour of Endel Tulving today. The room was packed with people, ideas, and incredible affection for a titan of memory. Organised by @SchacterLab. With Gus Craik, @RobertoECabeza @AddisLab Shayna Rosenbaum, Karl Szpunar #Memory
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4 Apr 2024
A recent @NPR story on the constructive nature of memory -- Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A psychologist gave them the language to turn their work into a dance performance. Listen to the full story here:
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
13 Mar 2024
I will be recruiting a post-doc at the @PCfN__ to work in neuroaesthetics/creativity. Domain knowledge, quantitative, coding skills, and experience w neuroscience methods (esp fMRI) desirable. Please RT (or RX?).
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
8 Mar 2024
Check out our latest work "Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements" out now in Creativity Research Journal! Many thanks to my collaborators @Roger_Beaty @BenedekMathias @SchacterLab
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5 Feb 2024
A recent highlight of our research, finding that creative writing involves the integration of semantically distant ideas with perceptually descriptive information in stories from humans and Large Language Models @harvardbrainsci @_CreativeEd
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
18 Dec 2023
April: 'The role of memory in creative ideation' by Mathias Benedek (@BenedekMathias), Roger E. Beaty (@Roger_Beaty), Daniel L. Schacter (@SchacterLab) & Yoed N. Kenett (@yoed_kenett)
Web: go.nature.com/3Y6xVbx
PDF: rdcu.be/dtUT5
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2 May 2023
The Articulate Hour from #PBS concerning memory will be airing on Friday May 5. Tune in to hear artists and scholars discuss the reliability of our recall and the surprising ways our memories fuel creativity.
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
14 Apr 2023
Just arrived!! A new book 'Memory in Science for Society' - I wrote a chapter w/ Dan Schacter reviewing how people make decisions about the future.
We cover intertemporal choice, focusing on applied attempts to reduce delay discounting and increase patience.
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22 Sep 2022
RT @TarekAmerPhD: I'm recruiting a grad student for Sept 2023 @uvic! If you're interested in memory, aging, and cognitive control (and want…
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
19 Sep 2022
“The Invention of Tomorrow” is out tomorrow!
I would absolutely love to see pics of the book out in the wild as it starts hitting shelves this week - if you see it or get a copy please post / send a photo! #InventionOfTomorrow 🌅
@BasicBooks @sciencefactory
18 Aug 2022
My new book with Thomas Suddendorf and Jon Redshaw, THE INVENTION OF TOMORROW: A NATURAL HISTORY OF FORESIGHT, is a Next Big Idea Club September 2022 Nominee! 🎉 🌅
The book comes out 20th Sep.
@NextBigIdeaClub @BasicBooks @HachetteAus @sciencefactory
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19 Sep 2022
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity
19 Sep 2022
New paper out in the Creativity Research Journal, exploring contributions of mind wandering to creative thinking. Thanks to my collaborators @SchacterLab @SepulcreLab @neuroeli @IbaiDiezPalacio @chris_a_kelly
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13 Sep 2022
RT @jordwynn: Come join me in beautiful Victoria, BC! I will be recruiting a graduate student for Sep 2023 to work on eyetracking studies o…
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
2 Sep 2022
I'm thrilled to announce Harvard's *third* annual Prospective PhD and RA Event in Psychology (PPREP)! A two-day informational and mentoring event. See details:
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/p…
application: bit.ly/3Q8QEz5
Please share!!
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2 Sep 2022
Dr. Eva Higginbotham interviews Dan Schacter about his recently updated edition of his book, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers.
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Schacter Memory Lab retweeted
5 Jul 2022
New work from @will_orwig, Dan Schacter et al.: "Individuals with highly superior autobiographical memory do not show enhanced creative thinking" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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