Daniel Schacter
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American psychologist; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, researching memory, amnesia, memory distortion and future…
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Flexibly recombining past experiences should help in imagining the future, because the future rarely repeats the past exactly (opens korrents.com)
“This kind of flexible retrieval and recombination should be adaptive for purposes of thinking about the future because the future is rarely an exact repetition of the past – we want to be able to simulate novel…”
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Memory research is broadening to how memory shapes future thinking, problem solving, decision making and creativity, and the trend is likely to continue (opens korrents.com)
“In my own lab and in the field more generally, I think that we are seeing a focus on memory not just as a means of retrieving past experiences and stored knowledge, but also an increasing interest in how various forms…”
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Over a long career it is important to try to treat failures and rejections as teaching signals (opens korrents.com)
“Those experiences are rarely pleasant, and can be demoralizing, but to sustain over the long-term I think it is important to try to view them as sources of teaching signals.”
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Flexibly recombining past experiences should help in imagining the future, because the future rarely repeats the past exactly (opens korrents.com)