birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation alma_mater
new york american 17 june 1952 human memory and amnesia daniel schacter
 daniel schacter professor of psychology at harvard university , author university -rrb- university of toronto -lrb- ma and phd -rrb- of north carolina at chapel hill -lrb- ba
daniel schacter

daniel lawrence schacter -lrb- born june 17 , 1952 -rrb- is an american psychologist .
he is a professor of psychology at harvard university .
his research has focused on psychological and biological aspects of human memory and amnesia , with a particular emphasis on the distinction between conscious and nonconscious forms of memory and , more recently , on brain mechanisms of memory & brain distortion .
