Daniel L Schacter

Datos Biográficos

ID1662584
NOMBREDaniel L Schacter
NOMBRESDaniel L
APELLIDOSchacter
FIRMASCHACTER D L
AFILIACIONESHarvard University
ORCID0000-0002-2460-6061
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS72
TOTAL DE CITAS34
TOTAL COMO AUTOR72
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1976
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Using AI to Generate Visual Art

    William Orwig, Lucas Bellaiche et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2026

    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-assisted artwork? To explore this, we conducted an online, pre-registered study in which we measured individual differences in creativity through two divergent-thinking tasks: The Alternate Uses Task and the Divergent Associations Task. Separately, participant…

  • The Roles of Memory and Imagination in Evaluating Usefulness of Novel Ideas

    Open AccessWilliam Orwig, Veronica Li et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2026

    Episodic retrieval processes that support reconstructing past experiences and imagining future experiences have been linked to creative idea generation. However, little is known about the possible role of such episodic processes in the evaluation of creative ideas. Across two independent samples, participants rated the effectiveness of pregenerated object‐use pairs and subsequently reported the extent to which they relied on memory and imaginatio…

  • Creative Evaluation

    William Orwig, Roger E Beaty et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2025

    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 creative ideas; however, the role of memory in creative evaluation has not been systematically examined. Across two independent online samples (Study 1 n = 50, Study 2 n = 626), we explore how episodic retrieval supports the evaluation of two distinct aspec…

  • Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis

    Preston P Thakral, Connor C Starkey et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2025

    Episodic retrieval plays a functional-adaptive role in supporting divergent creative thinking, the ability to creatively combine different pieces of information. However, the same constructive memory process that provides this benefit can also lead to memory errors. Prior behavioral work has shown that there is a positive correlation between the false recognition of lure items in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, and divergent creative…

  • A ‘Sweet Spot’ for Creative Ideation

    Open AccessWilliam Orwig, Simone A Luchini et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2025Referencias: 23

    Creativity researchers have recently sought to standardize idea assessment via computational measures of semantic distance: the degree of conceptual dissimilarity between words. The relationship between semantic distance and creativity has traditionally been described using linear models, with the embedded assumption that as semantic distance increases, so does the creative quality of ideas. However, informal observations would suggest that dista…

  • Retrieval fluency inflates perceived preparation for difficult problems

    Nadia M Brashier, Catherine H Ho et al.ARTICLEMemory2024

    When faced with a difficult problem, people often rely on past experiences. While remembering clearly helps us reach solutions, can retrieval also lead to misperceptions of our abilities? In three experiments, participants encountered “worst case scenarios” they likely had never experienced and that would be difficult to navigate without extensive training (e.g., bitten by snake). Learning brief tips improved problem-solving performance later, bu…

  • Bias and constructive processes in a self-memory system

    Daniel L Schacter, Ciara M Greene et al.ARTICLEMemory2024

    Martin Conway’s influential theorising about the self-memory system (Conway, M. A., & Pleydell-Pearce, C. W. (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Psychological Review, 107(2), 261–288) illuminated how the “working self” influences the construction of autobiographical memories. Moreover, his constructive view of self and memory is compatible with the occurrence of various kinds of errors and distortions …

  • Grandiose narcissism influences the phenomenology of remembered past and imagined future events

    Ellen F Finch, Sarah E Kalinowski et al.ARTICLEMemory2024

    Little empirical work has examined future thinking in narcissistic grandiosity. We here extend prior work finding that people scoring high in grandiosity have self-bolstering tendencies in remembering past events, and we consider whether these tendencies extend to imagining future events. Across an initial study (N = 112) and replication (N = 169), participants wrote about remembered past events and imagined future events in which they embodied o…

  • The Language of Creativity

    Open AccessWilliam Orwig, Emma R Edenbaum et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2024

    Recent developments in computerized scoring via semantic distance have provided automated assessments of verbal creativity. Here, we extend past work, applying computational linguistic approaches to characterize salient features of creative text. We hypothesize that, in addition to semantic diversity, the degree to which a story includes perceptual details, thus transporting the reader to another time and place, would be predictive of creativity.…

  • Eye movements reinstate remembered locations during episodic simulation

    Open AccessJordana S Wynn, Daniel L SchacterARTICLECognition2024

  • Characterizing Features of Creative Writing in Older Adults

    Open AccessWilliam Orwig, Daniel L Schacter et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2024Referencias: 5

    These results advance our understanding of age-related changes in creativity and highlight the potential role of episodic simulation in writing creative short stories

  • Endel Tulving (1927–2023)

    Henry L Roediger, Fergus I M Craik et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2024

    This article presents an obituary for Endel Tulving. Tulving's educational and professional careers are summarized. His work in the field of human memory is detailed. It is noted that Tulving's look at the field of verbal learning in the late 1950s persuaded him that the dominant associative tradition missed many important aspects of human memory. His research found that at the time of retrieval, memory for the original event may be successfully …

  • Mnemicity

    Open AccessJohannes Mahr, Penny Van Bergen et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2023

    Episodic representations can be entertained either as “remembered” or “imagined”—as outcomes of experience or as simulations of such experience. Here, we argue that this feature is the product of a dedicated cognitive function: the metacognitive capacity to determine the mnemicity of mental event simulations. We argue that mnemicity attribution should be distinguished from other metacognitive operations (such as reality monitoring) and propose th…

  • Intentionality of Self-Generated Thought

    William Orwig, Ibai Diez et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2023

    Studies suggest that internally oriented cognitive processes are central to creativity. Here, we distinguish between intentional and unintentional forms of mind wandering and explore their behavioral and neural correlates. We used a sample of 155 healthy adults from the mind-brain-body dataset, all of whom completed resting-state fMRI scans and trait-level measures of mind wandering. We analyzed intentional and unintentional mind wandering tenden…

  • Psychology, Canadian Edition

    Daniel L Schacter, Daniel T Gilbert et al.BOOKPsychology, Canadian Edition2023

  • Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study

    Ruben D I Van Genugten, Roger E Beaty et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2022

    Previous research indicates that episodic retrieval contributes to divergent creative thinking. However, this research has relied on standard laboratory tests of divergent creative thinking, such as generating creative uses for objects; it is unknown whether episodic retrieval also contributes to domain-specific forms of creativity. Here we start to explore whether episodic retrieval contributes to content generation on one such domain-specific t…

  • Individuals with highly superior autobiographical memory do not show enhanced creative thinking

    Sarah Daviddi, William Orwig et al.ARTICLEMemory2022

    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 memory and divergent thinking; however, little is known about the potential contributions of autobiographical memory to creative ideation. To provide a novel perspective on this issue, we assessed measures of divergent and convergent creative thinking in a…

  • The seven sins of memory

    Daniel L SchacterARTICLEMemory2022

    Memory serves critical functions in everyday life, but it is also vulnerable to error and illusion. Two decades ago, I proposed that memory errors could be classified into seven basic categories or “sins”: transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. I argued that each of the seven sins provides important insights concerning the fundamentally constructive nature of human memory, while at the same…

  • The influence of shifting perspective on episodic and semantic details during autobiographical memory recall

    Chloe I King, Anna S L Romero et al.ARTICLEMemory2022

    Shifting to a novel visual perspective during retrieval influences autobiographical memories (AM) and can lead to persistent changes in memories. Adopting an observer-like compared to an own eyes perspective reduces episodic information during AM recall, but less is known regarding how viewpoint influences semantic information. In the current study, we investigated how shifting from an own eyes to an observer-like perspective during narrative rec…

  • Schema-related eye movements support episodic simulation

    Open AccessJordana S Wynn, Ruben D I Van Genugten et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2022

  • Media, technology, and the sins of memory

    Open AccessDaniel L SchacterARTICLEMemory Mind & Media2022Citada por: 9Referencias: 80

    Human memory is prone to error and distortion. It has been proposed that memory's misdeeds can be classified into seven categories or ‘sins’. This article discusses the impact of media and technology on four memory sins: transience (forgetting over time), absent-mindedness (lapses in attention that produce forgetting), misattribution (attributing a memory to the wrong source), and suggestibility (implanted memories). Growing concerns have been ex…

  • Divergent thinking and constructing future events

    Preston P Thakral, Amanda C Yang et al.ARTICLEMemory2021

    Divergent thinking (the ability to generate creative ideas by combining diverse types of information) has been previously linked to the ability to imagine novel and specific future autobiographical events. Here, we examined whether divergent thinking is differentially associated with the ability to construct novel imagined future events and recast future events (i.e., actual past events recast as future events) as opposed to recalled past events.…

  • Linking creativity and false memory

    Open AccessPreston P Thakral, Aleea L Devitt et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

    Open AccessJohannes Mahr, Johannes B Mahr et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2021

  • Seven Sins of Memory Updated Edition

    Daniel L SchacterBOOKSeven Sins of Memory Updated…2021