Schacter, Daniel L.

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SCHACTER, Daniel L.

SCHACTER, Daniel L. American, b. 1952. Genres: Psychology. Career: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, research associate and assistant professor of psychology, 1981-87; University of Arizona, Tuscon, associate professor, 1987-89, professor of psychology, 1989-91; Harvard University, Boston, MA, professor of psychology, 1991-95, chair of department, 1995-. University College London, London, England, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, visiting professor, 1999. Member of editorial advisory board for journals. Publications: Stranger behind the Engram: Theories of Memory and the Psychology of Science, 1982, as Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers: Richard Semon and the Story of Memory, 2001; Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past, 1996; The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, 2001. EDITOR: (with R. R. Bootzin and J. F. Kihlstrom) Sleep and Cognition, 1990; (with G.P. Prigatano) Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects, 1991; (with E. Tulving) Memory Systems 1994, 1994; (with J.T. Coyle and others) Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past, 1995; (with L. R. Squire) Biological and Psychological Perspectives on Memory and Memory Disorders, 1997; The Cognitive Neuropsychology of False Memories, 1999; (with E. Scarry) Memory, Brain, and Belief, 2000; (with L.R. Squire) Neuropsychology of Memory, 3rd ed, 2002. Contributor to scientific journals. Address: Harvard University, Department of Psychology, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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