How Memory Works: Interview with Psychologist Daniel L. Schacter | History News Network - 2 views
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knowledge from a scientific perspective of how human memory works can be instructive to historians.
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Memory is much more than a simple retrieval system, as Dr. Schacter has demonstrated in his research. Rather, the nature of Memory is constructive and influenced by a person’s current state as well as intervening emotions, beliefs, events and other factors since a recalled event.
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Dr. Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His books include Searching for Memory: The Brain, The Mind, and The Past, and The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, both winners of the American Psychological Association’s William James Book Award, and Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers: Richard Semon and the Story of Memory. He also has written hundreds of articles on Memory and related matters. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
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