Publications

2024:

Dabas, A., Bruckner, R., Schultz, H., & Benoit, R.G. (2024). Learning from imagined experiences via an endogenous prediction error. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.24.600192

 

2023:

Meyer, A.-K. , & Benoit, R. G. (2023). Suppression-induced forgetting of complex aversive scenes - A replication and meta-analysis. PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/njbc8

Schultz, H., Stoffregen, H., Dabas, A., Alcobendas, M., & Benoit, R.G. (2023). Concurrent representations of reinstated and transformed memories and their modulation by reward. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.22.573008

Schultz, H., Stoffregen, H., & Benoit, R.G. (2023). A reward effect on memory retention, consolidation, and generalization? Learn. Mem. 30: 169-174 https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053842.123

Paulus, P.C., Williams, A.N., Wiese, S.S., & Benoit R.G. (2023). The structure of experience: Examining the emergence of schematic representations in the medial prefrontal cortex. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.32470/CCN.2023.1307-0     

 

2022:

Paulus, Philipp C., et al. “Simulation-Based Learning Influences Real-Life Attitudes.” Cognition, vol. 227, Oct. 2022, p. 105202. ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105202 

Rösch, SA Stramaccia DF, Benoit RG. (2022). Promoting farsighted decisions via episodic future thinking: A meta-analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(7), 1606–1635. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001148

Meyer AK, Benoit RG. “Suppression Weakens Unwanted Memories via a Sustained Reduction of Neural Reactivation.” eLife, edited by Muireann Irish and Christian Büchel, vol. 11, Mar. 2022, p. e71309. https://doi.org/10.7554%2FeLife.71309 

 

2021:

Williams AN, Benoit RG. “Imagining Our Better Selves.” Nature Sustainability, vol. 4, no. 5, May 2021, pp. 381–82. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00671-6 

Stramaccia DF, Meyer AK, Rischer KM, Fawcett JM, & Benoit RG. (2021). Memory suppression and its deficiency in psychological disorders: A focused meta-analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(5), 828–850. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000971

Paulus PC, Charest I, Benoit RG. Value Shapes the Structure of Schematic Representations in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex. bioRxiv, 9 Feb. 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.21.260950 

 

2020:

Paulus, P.C., Charest, I., & Benoit, R.G. (2020). Value shapes the structure of schematic representations in the medial prefrontal cortex. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.21.260950 

Ashton SM, Benoit RG, Quaedflieg CWEM. “The Impairing Effect of Acute Stress on Suppression-Induced Forgetting of Future Fears and Its Moderation by Working Memory Capacity.” Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol. 120, Oct. 2020, p. 104790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104790 

Botvinik-Nezer R, et al. “Variability in the Analysis of a Single Neuroimaging Dataset by Many Teams.” Nature, vol. 582, no. 7810, June 2020, pp. 84–88. https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41586-020-2314-9 

 

2019:

Benoit RG, Paulus PC, Schacter DL. “Forming Attitudes via Neural Activity Supporting Affective Episodic Simulations.” Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, May 2019, p. 2215. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683221114215 

 

2018:

Benoit RG, Berkers RMWJ, Paulus PC. “An Adaptive Function of Mental Time Travel: Motivating Farsighted Decisions.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 41, 2018, p. e3. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1700125x 

Campbell KL, Madore KP, Benoit RG, Thakral PP, Schacter DL. “Increased Hippocampus to Ventromedial Prefrontal Connectivity during the Construction of Episodic Future Events.” Hippocampus, vol. 28, no. 2, Feb. 2018, pp. 76–80. https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fhipo.22812 

 

2017:

Thakral PP, Benoit RG, Schacter DL. “Characterizing the Role of the Hippocampus during Episodic Simulation and Encoding.” Hippocampus, vol. 27, no. 12, Dec. 2017, pp. 1275–84. https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fhipo.22796 

Campbell KL, Benoit RG, Schacter DL. “Priming, Not Inhibition, of Related Concepts during Future Imagining.” Memory, vol. 25, no. 9, Oct. 2017, pp. 1235–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2017.1283420 

Schacter DL, Benoit RG, Szpunar KK. “Episodic Future Thinking: Mechanisms and Functions.” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, vol. 17, Oct. 2017, pp. 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cobeha.2017.06.002 

Thakral PP, Benoit RG, Schacter DL. “Imagining the Future: The Core Episodic Simulation Network Dissociates as a Function of Timecourse and the Amount of Simulated Information.” Cortex, vol. 90, May 2017, pp. 12–30. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cortex.2017.02.005 

 

2016:

Benoit RG, Davies DJ, Anderson MC. “Reducing Future Fears by Suppressing the Brain Mechanisms Underlying Episodic Simulation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 52, Dec. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606604114 

 

2015:

Szpunar KK, Jing HG, Benoit RG, Schacter DL. “Repetition-Related Reductions in Neural Activity during Emotional Simulations of Future Events.” PLOS ONE, vol. 10, no. 9, Sept. 2015, p. e0138354. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138354 

Benoit RG, Schacter DL. “Specifying the Core Network Supporting Episodic Simulation and Episodic Memory by Activation Likelihood Estimation.” Neuropsychologia, vol. 75, Aug. 2015, pp. 450–57. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.neuropsychologia.2015.06.034 

Fawcett JM, Benoit RG, Gagnepain P, Salman A, Bartholdy S, Bradley C, Chan DKY, Roche A, Brewin CR, Anderson MC.   “The Origins of Repetitive Thought in Rumination: Separating Cognitive Style from Deficits in Inhibitory Control over Memory.” Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, vol. 47, June 2015, pp. 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.10.009 

Benoit RG, Hulbert JC, Huddleston E, Anderson MC. “Adaptive Top–Down Suppression of Hippocampal Activity and the Purging of Intrusive Memories from Consciousness.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 27, no. 1, Jan. 2015, pp. 96–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00696 

Schacter DL, Benoit RG, De Brigard F, Szpunar KK. “Episodic Future Thinking and Episodic Counterfactual Thinking: Intersections between Memory and Decisions.” Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, vol. 117, Jan. 2015, pp. 14–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.12.008 

Bergström, Z.M., Vogelsang, D.A., Benoit, R.G., & Simons, J.S. (2015). Reflections of oneself: Neurocognitive evidence for dissociable forms of self-referential recollection. Cerebral Cortex 25, 2648-2657. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhu063

 

2014:

Benoit RG, Szpunar KK, Schacter DL. “Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Supports Affective Future Simulation by Integrating Distributed Knowledge.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, no. 46, Nov. 2014, pp. 16550–55. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419274111 

Küpper, C.S., Benoit, R.G., Dalgleish, T., & Anderson, M.C. (2014). Direct suppression as a mechanism of controlling unpleasant memories in daily life. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 143(4):1443-1449. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036518 

 

2012:

Benoit RG, Anderson MC. “Opposing Mechanisms Support the Voluntary Forgetting of Unwanted Memories.” Neuron, vol. 76, no. 2, Oct. 2012, pp. 450–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.07.025 

Benoit RG, Gilbert SJ, Frith CD, Burgess PW. “Rostral Prefrontal Cortex and the Focus of Attention in Prospective Memory.” Cerebral Cortex, vol. 22, no. 8, Aug. 2012, pp. 1876–86. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhr264 

 

2011:

Benoit RG, Gilbert SJ, Burgess PW. “A Neural Mechanism Mediating the Impact of Episodic Prospection on Farsighted Decisions.” The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 31, no. 18, May 2011, pp. 6771–79. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6559-10.2011 

 

2010:

Benoit, R.G., Gilbert, S.J., Volle, E., Burgess, P.W. (2010). When I think about me and simulate you: Medial rostral prefrontal cortex and self-referential processes. NeuroImage 50(3), 1340-1349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.091

Volle, E., Gilbert, S.J., Benoit, R.G., Burgess, P.W. (2010). Specialization of the rostral prefrontal cortex for distinct analogy processes. Cerebral Cortex 20(11), 2647-2659. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhq012

Gilbert, S.J., Gonen-Yaacovi, G., Benoit, R.G., Volle, E., & Burgess, P.W. (2010). Distinct functional connectivity associated with lateral versus medial rostral prefrontal cortex: A meta-analysis. NeuroImage 53(4), 1359-1367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.032

2009:

Benoit, R.G., Werkle-Bergner, M, Mecklinger, A., Kray, J. (2009). Adapting to changing memory retrieval demands: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain and Cognition 70(1), 123-135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2009.01.004

Burgess, P.W., Alderman, N., Volle, E., Benoit, R.G., Gilbert, S.J. (2009). Mesulam's frontal lobe mystery re-examined. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience 27(5), 439-506. https://doi.org/10.3233/rnn-2009-0511  

2008:

Benoit, R.G. (2008). The role of rostral prefrontal cortex in establishing cognitive sets: Preparation or coordination? The Journal of Neuroscience 28(13), 3259-3261. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0206-08.2008