Donna Rose Addis is a New Zealand psychology academic. Of

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descent, she earned the title of full Professor at the

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before moving to

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in 2018 as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging at the

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and a Senior Scientist at th
Rotman Research Institute
in Baycrest Hospital. She retains an appointment at Aukland on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Brain Research in the School of Psychology.

Academic career

Addis went to Aorere College in Auckland, and her bursary marks made her New Zealand's top all-round scholar of Pacific Island descent. After an undergraduate at the

Addis won a

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to the

for a

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titled '' 'Terms of engagement: investigating the engagement of the hippocampus and related structures during autobiographical memory retrieval in healthy individuals and temporal lobe epilepsy patients' '' and a post-doctoral fellowship at

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. She then returned to Auckland and rose to full professor in 2016. Addis's research is on memory, future thinking, depression brain scans, and related areas. In 2009, Addis won a Prime Minister's Science Prize. In 2017 Addis was made a

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Selected works

* Schacter, Daniel L., Donna Rose Addis, and Randy L. Buckner. "Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain."

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8, no. 9 (2007): 657–661. * Addis, Donna Rose, Alana T. Wong, and Daniel L. Schacter. "Remembering the past and imagining the future: common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration."

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45, no. 7 (2007): 1363–1377. * Schacter, Daniel L., and Donna Rose Addis. "The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future." Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B: biological sciences 362, no. 1481 (2007): 773–786. * Moscovitch, Morris, R. Shayna Rosenbaum, Asaf Gilboa, Donna Rose Addis, Robyn Westmacott, Cheryl Grady, Mary Pat McAndrews et al. "Functional neuroanatomy of remote episodic, semantic and spatial memory: a unified account based on multiple trace theory."

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207, no. 1 (2005): 35–66. * Schacter, Daniel L., Donna Rose Addis, and Randy L. Buckner. "Episodic simulation of future events."

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1124, no. 1 (2008): 39–60.

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