Daniel L. Schacter

105.5k total citations · 26 hit papers
619 papers, 74.2k citations indexed

About

Daniel L. Schacter is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel L. Schacter has authored 619 papers receiving a total of 74.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 480 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 154 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 106 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daniel L. Schacter's work include Memory Processes and Influences (343 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (253 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (113 papers). Daniel L. Schacter is often cited by papers focused on Memory Processes and Influences (343 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (253 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (113 papers). Daniel L. Schacter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and New Zealand. Daniel L. Schacter's co-authors include Randy L. Buckner, Donna Rose Addis, Jessica R. Andrews‐Hanna, Endel Tulving, Peter Graf, Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Wilma Koutstaal, Karl K. Szpunar, Anthony D. Wagner and R. Nathan Spreng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel L. Schacter

610 papers receiving 71.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Brain's Default Network

2008 7.4k citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Implicit memory: History and current status.

1987 2.1k citations Daniel L. Schacter profile →
Priming and Human Memory Systems

1990 1.9k citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain

2007 1.5k citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration

2006 1.4k citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Implicit and explicit memory for new associations in normal and amnesic subjects.

1985 1.2k citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future

2007 1.2k citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Top-down facilitation of visual recognition

2006 1.1k citations Moshe Bar, K. Kassam et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Default network activity, coupled with the frontoparietal control network, supports goal-directed cognition

2010 892 citations R. Nathan Spreng, Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain

2012 873 citations Daniel L. Schacter, R. Nathan Spreng et al. profile →
Priming effects in word-fragment completion are independent of recognition memory.

1982 803 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
The seven sins of memory: Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

1999 721 citations Daniel L. Schacter profile →
Implicit and explicit memory for new associations in normal and amnesic subjects.

1985 666 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

2015 632 citations Roger E. Beaty, Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF CONSTRUCTIVE MEMORY

1998 622 citations Daniel L. Schacter, Wilma Koutstaal et al. profile →
Episodic Simulation of Future Events

2008 615 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Priming and the Brain

1998 605 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
The evolution of multiple memory systems.

1987 602 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Medial temporal lobe activations in fMRI and PET studies of episodic encoding and retrieval

1999 552 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Unawareness of deficits in neuropsychological syndromes

1989 520 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Intrinsic Architecture Underlying the Relations among the Default, Dorsal Attention, and Frontoparietal Control Networks of the Human Brain

2012 508 citations R. Nathan Spreng, Daniel L. Schacter et al. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →
Implicit Memory: A Selective Review

1993 507 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Episodic future thinking: mechanisms and functions

2017 477 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Mind-Wandering as a Natural Kind: A Family-Resemblances View

2018 248 citations Paul Seli, Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
Aging in an Era of Fake News

2020 208 citations Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →
The role of memory in creative ideation

2023 88 citations Roger E. Beaty, Daniel L. Schacter et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Automated scoring of the autobiographical interview with natural language processing 2024 ·Behavior Research Methods ·(unknown), Daniel L. Schacter	13
2	The Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models 2024 ·The Journal of Creative Behavior ·(unknown), (unknown), Joshua D. Greene, Daniel L. Schacter	22
3	Emotional future simulations: neural and cognitive perspectives 2024 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Daniel L. Schacter, (unknown), Jenna M. Wilson	0
4	Transcranial magnetic stimulation to the angular gyrus modulates the temporal dynamics of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex 2022 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Gillian Coughlan, (unknown), Ali Golestani, Preston P. Thakral, Daniel L. Schacter, Cheryl L. Grady, Morris Moscovitch	5
5	Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study 2021 ·Creativity Research Journal ·(unknown), Roger E. Beaty, Kevin P. Madore, Daniel L. Schacter	15
6	Modulation of hippocampal brain networks produces changes in episodic simulation and divergent thinking 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Preston P. Thakral, Kevin P. Madore, (unknown), Daniel L. Schacter	51
7	The role of neuronal excitability, allocation to an engram and memory linking in the behavioral generation of a false memory in mice 2020 ·Neurobiology of Learning and Memory ·(unknown), Asim J. Rashid, (unknown), Paul W. Frankland, Daniel L. Schacter, Sheena A. Josselyn	31
8	Constructing autobiographical events within a spatial or temporal context: a comparison of two targeted episodic induction techniques 2019 ·Memory ·Signy Sheldon, (unknown), Kevin P. Madore, Daniel L. Schacter	22
9	Implicit Memory, Constructive Memory, and Imagining the Future: A Career Perspective 2018 ·Perspectives on Psychological Science ·Daniel L. Schacter	20
10	Mind-wandering and task stimuli: Stimulus-dependent thoughts influence performance on memory tasks and are more often past- versus future-oriented 2017 ·Consciousness and Cognition ·David Maillet, Paul Seli, Daniel L. Schacter	33
11	A Role for the Left Angular Gyrus in Episodic Simulation and Memory 2017 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Preston P. Thakral, Kevin P. Madore, Daniel L. Schacter	119
12	When the mind wanders: Distinguishing stimulus-dependent from stimulus-independent thoughts during incidental encoding in young and older adults. 2016 ·Psychology and Aging ·David Maillet, Daniel L. Schacter	34
13	Divergent creative thinking in young and older adults: Extending the effects of an episodic specificity induction 2016 ·Memory & Cognition ·Kevin P. Madore, Helen G. Jing, Daniel L. Schacter	97
14	Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes. 2015 ·Emotion ·Jessica D. Payne, Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Erin J. Wamsley, R. Nathan Spreng, Sara E. Alger, (unknown), Daniel L. Schacter, Robert Stickgold	94
15	The Cortical Underpinnings of Context-based Memory Distortion 2009 ·Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) ·Daniel L. Schacter, Elissa Aminoff, Moshe Bar	40
16	Top-down facilitation of visual recognition breakdown → 2006 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Moshe Bar, K. Kassam, Avniel Singh Ghuman, Jasmine Boshyan, Annette M. Schmid, Anders M. Dale, Matti Hämäläinen, Ksenija Marinković, Daniel L. Schacter, Bruce R. Rosen, Eric Halgren	1123
17	Metacognition and False Recognition in Alzheimer's Disease: Further Exploration of the Distinctiveness Heuristic. 2005 ·Neuropsychology ·Andrew E. Budson, Chad S. Dodson, Kirk R. Daffner, Daniel L. Schacter	39
18	Dissociating confidence and accuracy: fMRI shows origins of the subjective memory experience 2004 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·Elizabeth F. Chua, Erin Rand‐Giovannetti, Daniel L. Schacter, Marilyn Albert, (unknown)	1
19	Suppression of false recognition in Alzheimer’s disease and in patients with frontal lobe lesions 2002 ·Brain ·Andrew E. Budson, Alison L. Sullivan, E. Mayer, Kirk R. Daffner, Peter McL. Black, Daniel L. Schacter	98
20	fMRI Evidence for a Role of Frontal and Inferior Temporal Cortex in Amodal Components of Priming 2000 ·Brain ·RL Buckner, Wilma Koutstaal, Daniel L. Schacter, Bruce R. Rosen	7

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