Schacter Memory Lab
@SchacterLab
Followers
265
Following
26
Media
0
Statuses
27
Our research explores human memory - impacts of aging, the nature of memory distortions & how individuals use memory to imagine possible future events
Harvard University
Joined August 2022
RT @will_orwig: Excited to see our work highlighted in today's New York Times article exploring the potential benefits of intentional mind….
nytimes.com
Today, let’s get lost in our thoughts.
0
7
0
RT @will_orwig: New research in collaboration with @LucasBellaiche now published in the Creativity Research Journal -- Do Individual Differ….
tandfonline.com
As artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the realm of generative art, a critical question emerges: does human creativity matter? That is, do more-creative people produce more-creative AI-assiste...
0
7
0
RT @jordwynn: @TarekAmerPhD and I are recruiting a fully funded postdoc to work on studies of memory, visual attention, and aging @uvic. Pl….
0
18
0
RT @jordwynn: Excited to see this one out! Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation. @SchacterLab. https://….
0
9
0
RT @sjo09: Fantastic and touching symposium remembering Endel Tulving. Great history of his childhood to his many many many contributions t….
0
9
0
RT @Memory_Control: An incredible line-up for the @CNSmtg session in honour of Endel Tulving today. The room was packed with people, ideas….
0
3
0
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:.
npr.org
Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A neuroscientist and author gave them the science and the language to turn their work into a dance performance and a book.
0
2
10
RT @will_orwig: Check out our latest work "Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements" out now in Creati….
tandfonline.com
How do we assess the quality of an idea? Current theories suggest that episodic memory contributes to creative ideation, implicating memory retrieval and mental simulation in the generation of crea...
0
8
0
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 .
brain.harvard.edu
0
5
16
RT @NatRevPsych: April: 'The role of memory in creative ideation' by Mathias Benedek (@BenedekMathias), Roger E. Beaty (@Roger_Beaty), Dani….
0
3
0
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.
pbs.org
Journey into the landscape of our past as great creative thinkers explore human memory.
0
5
14
RT @Adamdbulley: Just arrived!! A new book 'Memory in Science for Society' - I wrote a chapter w/ Dan Schacter reviewing how people make de….
0
4
0
RT @TarekAmerPhD: I'm recruiting a grad student for Sept 2023 @uvic! If you're interested in memory, aging, and cognitive control (and want….
0
464
0
RT @Adamdbulley: “The Invention of Tomorrow” is out tomorrow!. I would absolutely love to see pics of the book out in the wild as it starts….
0
2
0
Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity.
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 .
0
1
3
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….
0
56
0
RT @profcikara: I'm thrilled to announce Harvard's *third* annual Prospective PhD and RA Event in Psychology (PPREP)! A two-day information….
0
133
0
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.
0
2
10
RT @Roger_Beaty: New work from @will_orwig, Dan Schacter et al.: "Individuals with highly superior autobiographical memory do not show enha….
tandfonline.com
Creative ideas are thought to result from flexible recombination of concepts from memory. A growing number of behavioural and neuroscientific studies provide evidence of a link between episodic mem...
0
5
0