title: Daniel L. Schacter: Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.
abstract: Presents Daniel L. Schacter as one of the winners of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (2012). Daniel L. Schacter's major theoretical and empirical contributions include groundbreaking research on the psychological and neural foundations of implicit and explicit memory, memory distortions and errors, and prospective episodic thought. He has propelled the field of cognitive neuroscience, first through studies of patients suffering anterograde amnesia and subsequently through functional brain imaging studies. A citation, biography, and selected bibliography are presented here.
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*; D012106:Research; D014481:United States