Daniel Schacter
American psychologist; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, researching memory, amnesia, memory distortion and future simulation; author of The Seven Sins of Memory (2001).
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From their papers Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory3 korrents Implicit Memory, Constructive Memory, and Imagining the Future: A Career Perspective2 korrents
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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.
↗Putting Together the Puzzle of Adaptive Constructive Memory: Q&A with Daniel Schacter (Cognitive Neuroscience Society)cogneurosociety.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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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.
↗Putting Together the Puzzle of Adaptive Constructive Memory: Q&A with Daniel Schacter (Cognitive Neuroscience Society)cogneurosociety.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Over a long career it is important to try to treat failures and rejections as teaching signals
Their wordsThose experiences are rarely pleasant, and can be demoralizing, but to sustain over the long-term I think it is important to try to view them as sources of teaching signals.
↗Implicit Memory, Constructive Memory, and Imagining the Future: A Career Perspective (Perspectives on Psychological Science)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 2 from this paper
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Their wordsIn these times of justified focus on important issues related to reproducibility, rigor, and open science, we would do well to remember that surprise and excitement still count as key elements of a career in psychological science.
↗Implicit Memory, Constructive Memory, and Imagining the Future: A Career Perspective (Perspectives on Psychological Science)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 2 from this paper
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Their wordsBartlett’s elaboration of what he meant by “turning round” on one’s own schemata reveals an important property of human memory: some processes that contribute to adaptive responding also result in error.
↗Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory (American Psychologist, 2012)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 3 from this paper
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Their wordsAs a result, when a future scenario involves features or properties that are not represented when people imagine that scenario, but are relevant to how they will feel or perform when the scenario actually unfolds, individuals are very likely to be led astray by their incomplete, essentialized, or unrepresentative simulations. By contrast, simulations tend to be useful when they do represent critical features of an upcoming situation.
↗Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory (American Psychologist, 2012)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 3 from this paper
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Their wordsA combined emphasis on constructive and functional processes should broaden our understanding of how memory links the past with the future.
↗Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory (American Psychologist, 2012)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 3 from this paper
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