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Putting Together the Puzzle of Adaptive Constructive Memory: Q&A with Daniel Schacter (Cognitive Neuroscience Society)

Daniel Schacter · 21 Feb 2019

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Flexibly recombining past experiences should help in imagining the future, because the future rarely repeats the past exactly

Their wordsThis kind of flexible retrieval and recombination should be adaptive for purposes of thinking about the future because the future is rarely an exact repetition of the past – we want to be able to simulate novel upcoming events in light of our past experiences.

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    Flexibly recombining past experiences should help in imagining the future, because the future rarely repeats the past exactly

    Their wordsThis kind of flexible retrieval and recombination should be adaptive for purposes of thinking about the future because the future is rarely an exact repetition of the past – we want to be able to simulate novel upcoming events in light of our past experiences.

  2. Our reading

    Memory research is broadening to how memory shapes future thinking, problem solving, decision making and creativity, and the trend is likely to continue

    Their wordsIn my own lab and in the field more generally, I think that we are seeing a focus on memory not just as a means of retrieving past experiences and stored knowledge, but also an increasing interest in how various forms of memory impact a range of cognitive and affective functions, including future thinking, scene construction, problem solving, decision making, emotion regulation, and creativity. I think that this broadens considerably the domain of memory research, and is a trend that I expect to continue in the future.

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