Dan Schacter

Dan is Harvard’s former Chair of Psychology. He has written 300 scientific articles and eight books including The Seven Sins of Memory, The Brain, the Mind, and the Past, and Psychology a university-level textbook. Research in the Schacter memory lab is concerned with understanding the nature and function of human memory using cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging approaches. Current topics of interest include: memory distortion, the role of memory in imagining the future, counterfactual simulation, and enhancing online learning.