Publications

2025

  • Cole, S., Szpunar, K., Benoit, R. G., Bastin, C., Schacter, D., Rafal, R., & Turnbull, O. (2025). Emotional past and future events after pulvinar damage: A neuropsychological case series. Cortex, 184, 221–235.
  • Schultz, H., & Benoit, R. G. (2025, April 28). It’s about time: Specific and unspecific effects of episodic future thinking on farsighted decisions.
  • Schultz, H., Stoffregen, H., Dabas, A., Alcobendas, M., & Benoit, R. G. (2025). Concurrent representations of reinstated and transformed memories and their modulation by reward. Imaging Neuroscience, 3. Ìý

2024Ìý

  • Stramaccia, D. F., Bergmann, F., Lingelbach, K., Numssen, O., Hartwigsen, G., & Benoit, R. G. (2024, December). Hindering memory suppression by perturbing the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex [Preprint]. bioRxiv.
  • Dabas, A., Bruckner, R., Schultz, H., & Benoit, R. G. (2024, August). Learning from imagined experiences via an endogenous prediction error [Preprint]. Ìý

2023

  • Meyer, A., & Benoit, R. G. (2023, December). Suppression-induced forgetting of complex aversive scenes: A replication and meta-analysis [Preprint].
  • Schultz, H., Stoffregen, H., & Benoit, R. G. (2023). A reward effect on memory retention, consolidation, and generalization? Learning & Memory, 30(8), 169–174. Ìý

2022

  • Paulus, P. C., Dabas, A., Felber, A., & Benoit, R. G. (2022). Simulation-based learning influences real-life attitudes. Cognition, 227, Article 105202.
  • Rösch, S. A., Stramaccia, D. F., & Benoit, R. G. (2022). Promoting farsighted decisions via episodic future thinking: A meta-analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(7), 1606–1635. Ìý
  • Meyer, A. K., & Benoit, R. G. (2022). Suppression weakens unwanted memories via a sustained reduction of neural reactivation. eLife, 11. Ìý

2021

  • Stramaccia, D. F., Meyer, A. K., Rischer, K. M., Fawcett, J. M., & Benoit, R. G. (2021). Memory suppression and its deficiency in psychological disorders: A focused meta-analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(5), 828–850. Ìý

2020

  • Ashton, S. M., Benoit, R. G., & Quaedflieg, C. W. E. M. (2020). The impairing effect of acute stress on suppression-induced forgetting of future fears and its moderation by working memory capacity. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 120, Article 104790. Ìý
  • Botvinik-Nezer, R., …Ìý Benoit, R. G., Berkers, R. M. W. J., … et al.Ìý (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature, 582(7810), 84–88.ÌýÌý

2019

  • Benoit, R. G., Paulus, P. C., & Schacter, D. L. (2019). Forming attitudes via neural activity supporting affective episodic simulations. Nature Communications, 10, Article 2215. Ìý

2018

  • Campbell, K. L., Madore, K. P., Benoit, R. G., Thakral, P. P., & Schacter, D. L. (2018). Increased hippocampus to ventromedial prefrontal connectivity during the construction of episodic future events. Hippocampus, 28(2), 76–80.
  • Benoit, R. G., Berkers, R. M. W. J., & Paulus, P. C. (2018). An adaptive function of mental time travel: Motivating farsighted decisions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, Article e3. Ìý

2017

  • Thakral, P. P., Benoit, R. G., & Schacter, D. L. (2017). Characterizing the role of the hippocampus during episodic simulation and encoding. Hippocampus, 27(12), 1275–1284.
  • Schacter, D. L., Benoit, R. G., & Szpunar, K. K. (2017). Episodic future thinking: Mechanisms and functions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 17, 41–50.
  • Campbell, K. L., Benoit, R. G., & Schacter, D. L. (2017). Priming, not inhibition, of related concepts during future imagining. Memory, 25(9), 1235–1245.
  • Thakral, P. P., Benoit, R. G., & Schacter, D. L. (2017). Imagining the future: The core episodic simulation network dissociates as a function of timecourse and the amount of simulated information. Cortex, 90, 12–30. Ìý

2016

  • Benoit, R. G., Davies, D. J., & Anderson, M. C. (2016). Reducing future fears by suppressing the brain mechanisms underlying episodic simulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(52), E8492–E8501. Ìý

2015

  • Szpunar, K. K., Jing, H. G., Benoit, R. G., & Schacter, D. L. (2015). Repetition-related reductions in neural activity during emotional simulations of future events. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0138354.
  • 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(9), 2648–2657.
  • Benoit, R. G., & Schacter, D. L. (2015). Specifying the core network supporting episodic simulation and episodic memory by activation likelihood estimation. Neuropsychologia, 75, 450–457.
  • Fawcett, J. M., Benoit, R. G., Gagnepain, P., Salman, A., Bartholdy, S., Bradley, C., Chan, D. K., Roche, A., Brewin, C. R., & Anderson, M. C. (2015). The origins of repetitive thought in rumination: Separating cognitive style from deficits in inhibitory control over memory. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 47, 1–8.
  • Benoit, R. G., Hulbert, J. C., Huddleston, E., & Anderson, M. C. (2015). Adaptive top-down suppression of hippocampal activity and the purging of intrusive memories from consciousness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(1), 96–111.
  • Schacter, D. L., Benoit, R. G., De Brigard, F., & Szpunar, K. K. (2015). Episodic future thinking and episodic counterfactual thinking: Intersections between memory and decisions. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 117, 14–21. Ìý

2014

  • Benoit, R. G., Szpunar, K. K., & Schacter, D. L. (2014). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex supports affective future simulation by integrating distributed knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(46), 16550–16555.
  • Küpper, C. S., Benoit, R. G., Dalgleish, T., & Anderson, M. C. (2014). Direct suppression as a mechanism for controlling unpleasant memories in daily life. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(4), 1443–1449. Ìý

2012

  • Benoit, R. G., & Anderson, M. C. (2012). Opposing mechanisms support the voluntary forgetting of unwanted memories. Neuron, 76(2), 450–460.
  • Benoit, R. G., Gilbert, S. J., Frith, C. D., & Burgess, P. W. (2012). Rostral prefrontal cortex and the focus of attention in prospective memory. Cerebral Cortex, 22(8), 1876–1886. Ìý

2011

  • Benoit, R. G., Gilbert, S. J., & Burgess, P. W. (2011). A neural mechanism mediating the impact of episodic prospection on farsighted decisions. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(18), 6771–6779. Ìý

2010

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. Ìý

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.
  • 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), 493–506. Ìý

2008

  • Benoit, R. G. (2008). The role of rostral prefrontal cortex in establishing cognitive sets: Preparation or coordination? Journal of Neuroscience, 28(13), 3259–3261. Ìý
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