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New work from Will Orwig, Dan Schacter et al.: "Individuals with highly superior autobiographical memory do not show enhanced creative thinking" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'm thrilled to announce Harvard's *third* annual Prospective PhD and RA Event in Psychology (PPREP)! A two-day informational and mentoring event. See details: psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep application: bit.ly/3Q8QEz5 Please share!!

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. omny.fm/shows/how-we-r…

Come join me in beautiful Victoria, BC! I will be recruiting a graduate student for Sep 2023 to work on eyetracking studies of memory and aging UniversityOfVictoria. Contact me if you're interested in applying!

“The Invention of Tomorrow” is out tomorrow! I would absolutely love to see pics of the book out in the wild as it starts hitting shelves this week - if you see it or get a copy please post / send a photo! #InventionOfTomorrow 🌅 Basic Books @sciencefactory

Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought: Contributions of Mind Wandering to Creativity

I'm recruiting a grad student for Sept 2023 UniversityOfVictoria! If you're interested in memory, aging, and cognitive control (and want to live in a beautiful city), please get in touch and consider applying! Deadline Dec 1st.

Just arrived!! A new book 'Memory in Science for Society' - I wrote a chapter w/ Dan Schacter reviewing how people make decisions about the future. We cover intertemporal choice, focusing on applied attempts to reduce delay discounting and increase patience.

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/video/episode-…

April: 'The role of memory in creative ideation' by Mathias Benedek (@BenedekMathias), Roger E. Beaty (Roger Beaty), Daniel L. Schacter (Schacter Memory Lab) & Yoed N. Kenett (Yoed Kenett) Web: go.nature.com/3Y6xVbx PDF: rdcu.be/dtUT5

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 HarvardBrainScience Creative Education brain.harvard.edu/hbi_news/let-m…

Check out our latest work "Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements" out now in Creativity Research Journal! Many thanks to my collaborators Roger Beaty @BenedekMathias Schacter Memory Lab tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I will be recruiting a post-doc at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics to work in neuroaesthetics/creativity. Domain knowledge, quantitative, coding skills, and experience w neuroscience methods (esp fMRI) desirable. Please RT (or RX?).

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/2024/04/03/124…

Fantastic and touching symposium remembering Endel Tulving. Great history of his childhood to his many many many contributions to memory! Lots of Endelisms! ⁦Schacter Memory Lab⁩ CNS 2026 Annual Meeting⁩ #cns2024

An incredible line-up for the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting session in honour of Endel Tulving today. The room was packed with people, ideas, and incredible affection for a titan of memory. Organised by Schacter Memory Lab. With Gus Craik, Roberto Cabeza @AddisLab Shayna Rosenbaum, Karl Szpunar #Memory

Excited to see this one out! Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation. Schacter Memory Lab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Tarek Amer and I are recruiting a fully funded postdoc to work on studies of memory, visual attention, and aging UniversityOfVictoria. Please share and get in touch!

New research in collaboration with Lucas Bellaiche now published in the Creativity Research Journal -- Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to see our work highlighted in today's New York Times article exploring the potential benefits of intentional mind wandering in creative thinking! nytimes.com/interactive/20…