Addis went to
Aorere College in Auckland, and her bursary marks made her New Zealand's top all-round scholar of Pacific Island descent.[3]
After an undergraduate at the
University of Auckland Addis won a
commonwealth scholarship to the
University of Toronto for a
PhD 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
Harvard University.[1] She then returned to Auckland and rose to full professor in 2016.[4]
Addis's research is on memory, future thinking,[5] depression[6] brain scans,[7] and related areas.[8]
Schacter, Daniel L., Donna Rose Addis, and Randy L. Buckner. "Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain."
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 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."
Neuropsychologia 45, no. 7 (2007): 1363–1377.
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."
Journal of Anatomy 207, no. 1 (2005): 35–66.
Schacter, Daniel L., Donna Rose Addis, and Randy L. Buckner. "Episodic simulation of future events."
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1124, no. 1 (2008): 39–60.