Daniel L. Schacter

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• How Memory Works: Interview with Psychologist Daniel L. Schacter

  by Robin Lindley

  Image via Shutterstock.Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.--Albert EinsteinMemory is the stuff of history. Historians rely on the memories of individuals as they seek and discover the facts and stories from which we create our public memory. Thus, knowledge from a scientific perspective of how human memory works can be instructive to historians.