Browsing by Author "Schacter, Daniel"

Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory

Schacter, Daniel L. (American Psychological Association, 2012)

Memory serves critical functions in everyday life, but is also prone to error. This article examines adaptive constructive processes, which play a functional role in memory and cognition but can also produce distortions, ...

Aged-Related Neural Changes During Memory Conjunction Errors

Giovanello, Kelly S.; Kensinger, Elizabeth A; Wong, Alana T.; Schacter, Daniel L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010)

Human behavioral studies demonstrate that healthy aging is often accompanied by increases in memory distortions or errors. Here we used event-related functional MRI to examine the neural basis of age-related memory ...

Auditory Priming within and across Modalities: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography

Badgaiyan, Rajendra D; Schacter, Daniel L.; Alpert, Nathaniel Moritz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1999)

Previous neuroimaging studies of perceptual priming have reported priming-related decreases in the extrastriate cortex. However, because these experiments have used visual stimuli, it is unclear whether the observed decreases ...

Brain Potentials Reflect Behavioral Differences in True and False Recognition

Curran, Tim; Schacter, Daniel L.; Johnson, Marcia K.; Spinks, Ruth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2001)

People often falsely recognize nonstudied lures that are semantically similar to previously studied words. Behavioral research suggests that such false recognition is based on high semantic overlap between studied items ...

Cognitive Neuroscience Analyses of Memory: A Historical Perspective

Polster, Michael R.; Nadel, Lynn; Schacter, Daniel L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1991)

As part of the general trend toward interdisciplinary research in recent years, a growing number of investigators have come to consider both cognitive and neuroscientific perspectives when theorizing about memory. Although ...

Coming to Grips With the Past: Effect of Repeated Simulation on the Perceived Plausibility of Episodic Counterfactual Thoughts

De Brigard, Felipe; Szpunar, Karl; Schacter, Daniel L. (SAGE Publications, 2013)

When people revisit previous experiences, they often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking: mental simulations of alternative ways in which personal past events could have occurred. The present study employed a novel ...

Conscious Processing During Retrieval Can Occur in Early and Late Visual Regions

Thakral, Preston P.; Slotnick, Scott D.; Schacter, Daniel L. (Elsevier BV, 2013)

Previous evidence has suggested a functional-anatomic dissociation between conscious and nonconscious processing during retrieval where early visual regions BA17/18 are associated with nonconscious processing and late ...

Constructive Memory: Past and Future

Schacter, Daniel L. (Les Laboratoires Servier, 2012)

Human memory is not a literal reproduction of the past, but instead relies on constructive processes that are sometimes prone to error and distortion. Understanding of constructive memory has accelerated during recent years ...

The Cortical Underpinnings of Context-based Memory Distortion

Aminoff, Elissa; Schacter, Daniel; Bar, Moshe (MIT Press, 2008)

Everyday contextual settings create associations that later afford generating predictions about what objects to expect in our environment. The cortical network that takes advantage of such contextual information is proposed ...

Dissociating Confidence and Accuracy: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shows Origins of the Subjective Memory Experience

Chua, Elizabeth A.; Rand-Giovannetti, Erin; Schacter, Daniel L.; Albert, Marilyn Silagy; Sperling, Reisa Anne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004)

Successful memory typically implies both objective accuracy and subjective confidence, but there are instances when confidence and accuracy diverge. This dissociation suggests that there may be distinct neural patterns of ...

Distinctive Encoding Reduces the Jacoby-Whitehouse Illusion

Gallo, David A.; Perlmutter, David H.; Moore, Christopher D.; Schacter, Daniel (Psychonomic Society, 2008)

We investigated the influence of distinctive encoding on the Jacoby and Whitehouse (1989) illusion. Subjects studied visually presented words that were associated with either an auditory presentation of the same word ...

Effects of Emotion on Memory Specificity in Young and Older Adults

Kensinger, Elizabeth A.; Garoff-Eaton, Rachel J.; Schacter, Daniel (Gerontological Society of America, 2002)

To examine how emotional content affects the amount of visual detail remembered, we had young and older adults study neutral, negative, and positive objects. At retrieval, they distinguished same (identical) from similar ...

Electrophysiological Dissociation of Picture Versus Word Encoding: The Distinctiveness Heuristic as a Retrieval Orientation

Budson, Andrew E.; Droller, Daniel B.; Dodson, Chad S.; Schacter, Daniel L.; Rugg, Michael D.; Holcomb, Philip J.; Daffner, Kirk R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2005)

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the neural processes underlying the distinctiveness heuristic— a response mode in which participants expect to remember vivid details of an experience and make ...