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Overview

Karl K. Szpunar is affiliated with Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Szpunar's work also touches on developmental and educational psychology, applied psychology, and the intersection of sociology and political science.

Their main research topics focus on various aspects of memory and cognitive processes. Key themes include:

  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Szpunar has published research in several notable venues that are frequently associated with their work. These include:

  • Memory
  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Cognition
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to personal and collective memory, future thinking, and the impact of large-scale events on memory themes. Selected papers include:

  • "Future thinking about social targets: The influence of prediction outcome on memory" (2020, Cognition)
  • "The good old days and the bad old days: evidence for a valence-based dissociation between personal and public memory" (2021, Memory)
  • "Collective remembering and future forecasting during the COVID-19 pandemic: How the impact of COVID-19 affected the themes and phenomenology of global and national memories across 15 countries" (2022, Memory & Cognition)
  • "Structure and dynamics of personal and national event cognition." (2022, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
  • "The reciprocal relationship between episodic memory and future thinking: How the outcome of predictions is subsequently remembered" (2022, Brain and Behavior)

Szpunar has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Sezin Öner
  • Lynn Ann Watson
  • Scott Cole
  • Donna Rose Addis
  • Andrea N. Frankenstein

Best Publications

  • The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain

    Daniel L. Schacter;Donna Rose Addis;Demis Hassabis;Victoria C. Martin

  • Neural substrates of envisioning the future

    Karl K. Szpunar;Jason M. Watson;Kathleen B. McDermott

  • Episodic Future Thought: An Emerging Concept.

    Karl K. Szpunar

  • Episodic Future Thinking: Mechanisms and Functions.

    Daniel L Schacter;Roland G Benoit;Karl K Szpunar

  • A taxonomy of prospection: Introducing an organizational framework for future-oriented cognition

    Karl K. Szpunar;R. Nathan Spreng;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Interpolated memory tests reduce mind wandering and improve learning of online lectures

    Karl K. Szpunar;Novall Y. Khan;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Episodic future thought and its relation to remembering: evidence from ratings of subjective experience.

    Karl K. Szpunar;Kathleen B. McDermott

  • Laboratory-based and autobiographical retrieval tasks differ substantially in their neural substrates.

    Kathleen B. McDermott;Karl K. Szpunar;Shawn E. Christ

  • Testing during study insulates against the buildup of proactive interference.

    Karl K. Szpunar;Kathleen B. McDermott;Henry L. Roediger

  • Mind wandering and education: from the classroom to online learning

    Karl K Szpunar;Samuel Taylor Moulton;Daniel L Schacter

  • Episodic future thinking and episodic counterfactual thinking: Intersections between memory and decisions

    Daniel L. Schacter;Roland G. Benoit;Felipe De Brigard;Karl K. Szpunar

  • Liking and memory for musical stimuli as a function of exposure.

    Karl K. Szpunar;E. Glenn Schellenberg;Patricia Pliner

  • Get real: effects of repeated simulation and emotion on the perceived plausibility of future experiences.

    Karl K. Szpunar;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Ventromedial prefrontal cortex supports affective future simulation by integrating distributed knowledge.

    Roland G. Benoit;Karl K. Szpunar;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Overcoming overconfidence in learning from video-recorded lectures: Implications of interpolated testing for online education

    Karl K. Szpunar;Helen G. Jing;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Contextual Processing in Episodic Future Thought

    Karl K. Szpunar;Jason C. K. Chan;Kathleen B. McDermott

  • Memory for Emotional Simulations Remembering a Rosy Future

    Karl K. Szpunar;Donna Rose Addis;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Episodic specificity induction impacts activity in a core brain network during construction of imagined future experiences.

    Kevin P. Madore;Karl K. Szpunar;Donna Rose Addis;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Collective future thought: Concept, function, and implications for collective memory studies

    Piotr M Szpunar;Karl K Szpunar

  • Imagining the near and far future: The role of location familiarity

    Kathleen M. Arnold;Kathleen B. McDermott;Karl K. Szpunar

  • Expectation of a final cumulative test enhances long-term retention.

    Karl K. Szpunar;Kathleen B. McDermott;Henry L. Roediger

  • BRIEF REPORT Get Real: Effects of Repeated Simulation and Emotion on the Perceived Plausibility of Future Experiences

    Karl K. Szpunar;Daniel L. Schacter

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Kathleen B. McDermott
Kathleen B. McDermott Washington University in St. Louis
Donna Rose Addis
Donna Rose Addis University of Toronto
R. Nathan Spreng
R. Nathan Spreng McGill University
Gabriel A. Radvansky
Gabriel A. Radvansky University of Notre Dame
Henry L. Roediger
Henry L. Roediger Washington University in St. Louis
Shawn E. Christ
Shawn E. Christ University of Missouri
E. Glenn Schellenberg
E. Glenn Schellenberg University of Toronto
Stefan G. Hofmann
Stefan G. Hofmann Philipp University of Marburg
Patricia Pliner
Patricia Pliner University of Toronto

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