Roland Benoit
@rolandbenoit.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist studying suppression of the past & construction of the future. Associate Professor @ University of Colorado Boulder, PI of the Adaptive Memory Lab https://www.colorado.edu/lab/adaptivememory
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Roland Benoit
@rolandbenoit.bsky.social
· Jul 30
1/3 Excited to share my first paper w/ co-first-author Davide Stramaccia in @rolandbenoit.bsky.social's lab! Causal evidence for right dlPFC involvement in #memory control: #TMS made it harder to stop intrusive memories & suppression didn't cause forgetting @jocn.bsky.social
-> tinyurl.com/prfra87k
-> tinyurl.com/prfra87k
Evidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social & @bradpostle.bsky.social.
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New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?
Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?
Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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Job alert: We at the University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, are seeking two tenure track Assistant Professors in open areas, incl. cognitive / cognitive neuroscience. It’s a great place here! Apply by Oct 12 via jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta....
Assistant Professor
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September 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Job alert: We at the University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, are seeking two tenure track Assistant Professors in open areas, incl. cognitive / cognitive neuroscience. It’s a great place here! Apply by Oct 12 via jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta....
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Thank you so much, Lynn @choosetobecurious.bsky.social, for having me on the podcast!
In our conversation, I reflect on my research journey into curiosity, share insights from our current developmental and educational projects, and even tap into my poetic side.
Choose To Be Curious with us! 😊
In our conversation, I reflect on my research journey into curiosity, share insights from our current developmental and educational projects, and even tap into my poetic side.
Choose To Be Curious with us! 😊
I knew neuroscientist Matthias Gruber had played an important part in my curiosity journey -- but I didn't know I'd played a part in his!
What a delight to finally get to talk with him about his wonderful work on #curiosity, #education and #memory.
lynnborton.com/2025/08/21/c...
What a delight to finally get to talk with him about his wonderful work on #curiosity, #education and #memory.
lynnborton.com/2025/08/21/c...
Curiosity Becomes the Engine for Learning, with Matthias Gruber
This was a wide-ranging and exciting conversation about neuroscientist Matthias Gruber's ongoing efforts to understand curiosity's role in learning and memory. There's a lot here. You may have to list...
lynnborton.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Thank you so much, Lynn @choosetobecurious.bsky.social, for having me on the podcast!
In our conversation, I reflect on my research journey into curiosity, share insights from our current developmental and educational projects, and even tap into my poetic side.
Choose To Be Curious with us! 😊
In our conversation, I reflect on my research journey into curiosity, share insights from our current developmental and educational projects, and even tap into my poetic side.
Choose To Be Curious with us! 😊
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Excited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Maintenance suppression enhances subsequent associative learning | PNAS
Removing irrelevant information from working memory (WM) can free cognitive resources
and reduce interference with current task goals. Beyond these...
www.pnas.org
August 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Excited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social & @bradpostle.bsky.social.
1/3 Excited to share my first paper w/ co-first-author Davide Stramaccia in @rolandbenoit.bsky.social's lab! Causal evidence for right dlPFC involvement in #memory control: #TMS made it harder to stop intrusive memories & suppression didn't cause forgetting @jocn.bsky.social
-> tinyurl.com/prfra87k
-> tinyurl.com/prfra87k
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Evidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social & @bradpostle.bsky.social.
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To my complete surprise, our Nature Reviews Neuroscience review on the Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Inhibitory Control of Thought has landed on the cover! Cover art below! For an "explainer thread", see earlier tweet. bsky.app/profile/memo...
@mrccbu.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #memory #ptsd
@mrccbu.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #memory #ptsd
June 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
To my complete surprise, our Nature Reviews Neuroscience review on the Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Inhibitory Control of Thought has landed on the cover! Cover art below! For an "explainer thread", see earlier tweet. bsky.app/profile/memo...
@mrccbu.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #memory #ptsd
@mrccbu.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #memory #ptsd
Much looking forward - hoping to see you there! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
At #PuG2025? Into memory? We've got just the symposium for you. "The emergence and transformation of memory representations in the human brain". Co-chaired with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social and featuring @denizkumral.bsky.social, Anne Bierbrauer, and @mgarvert.bsky.social. Today, 2:30pm in 0.004 Z6.
June 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Much looking forward - hoping to see you there! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
Hey fellows of the Psychonomic Society! Two grad students in my lab would be keen to present @ #psynom25 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social. Would any of you be able and willing to sponsor the submission of their poster abstracts? (Caveat: They would need a sponsor letter in time for today's deadline.)
Deadline Alert: Submit Your Abstract by This Thursday, June 3! Don’t miss your opportunity to present your research at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA (November 20–23). Submit a paper or poster abstract before the deadline closes. 🔗Apply now: bit.ly/4lnWkWW #psynom25
June 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hey fellows of the Psychonomic Society! Two grad students in my lab would be keen to present @ #psynom25 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social. Would any of you be able and willing to sponsor the submission of their poster abstracts? (Caveat: They would need a sponsor letter in time for today's deadline.)
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I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
May 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
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What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change | PNAS
Mitigating climate change requires urgent action at individual, collective, and institutional
levels. However, individuals may fail to act because ...
www.pnas.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Ever wondered how imagining prospective events helps us make farsighted decisions? Our preprint w/@heidrunschultz.bsky.social elucidates how it affects delay discounting. It notably reveals that the same mechanism can also nudge us towards more impulsive choices. @mpicbs.bsky.social @colorado.edu
Check out our latest preprint! "It’s about time: Specific and unspecific effects of episodic future thinking on farsighted decisions" with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social - osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/9
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April 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Ever wondered how imagining prospective events helps us make farsighted decisions? Our preprint w/@heidrunschultz.bsky.social elucidates how it affects delay discounting. It notably reveals that the same mechanism can also nudge us towards more impulsive choices. @mpicbs.bsky.social @colorado.edu
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Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
arxiv.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
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Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
Bad Sleep Lets Intrusive Thoughts Flood In
Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived
www.scientificamerican.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
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Can someone forget much of their life? Yes! In Psychogenic amnesia, extreme stress leads to the loss of years of memories, including all the people the patient knows. Why? Read about what we have discovered in @laura-marsh.bsky.social 's new paper or in the outstanding thread below #neuroskyence
Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Prefrontally mediated inhibition of memory systems in dissociative amnesia | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Prefrontally mediated inhibition of memory systems in dissociative amnesia
doi.org
January 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Can someone forget much of their life? Yes! In Psychogenic amnesia, extreme stress leads to the loss of years of memories, including all the people the patient knows. Why? Read about what we have discovered in @laura-marsh.bsky.social 's new paper or in the outstanding thread below #neuroskyence
I just signed the letter and hope that the MRC will maintain this extraordinary research environment. Closing the units with all their huge added value would be a great loss for science at large.
Are you a fan with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit? If so, read this Science story and then join the 500 scientists (inc two Nobels and two former Royal Society heads), who are asking the MRC to adjust course by signing the Open Letter linked in the story. www.science.org/content/arti...
Funding overhaul threatens historic U.K. research units
Scientists protest new “challenge-led” grants replacing funding that supported long-term basic research
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December 19, 2024 at 5:17 PM
I just signed the letter and hope that the MRC will maintain this extraordinary research environment. Closing the units with all their huge added value would be a great loss for science at large.
Congratulations to the awesome Dr. Ann-Kristin Meyer, who defended her thesis on memory suppression with flying colors - summa cum laude! How lucky we were to have her in the Adaptive Memory Lab back at @mpicbs.bsky.social! Find some of AK's work at elifesciences.org/articles/71309, w/ more to come.
December 18, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Congratulations to the awesome Dr. Ann-Kristin Meyer, who defended her thesis on memory suppression with flying colors - summa cum laude! How lucky we were to have her in the Adaptive Memory Lab back at @mpicbs.bsky.social! Find some of AK's work at elifesciences.org/articles/71309, w/ more to come.
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Peer reviews can vary from harsh and demoralizing to constructive and kind. How can we make sure the peer reviews we write fall into the latter group?
Join us for this virtual workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social to learn about the dos and don'ts of effective & constructive peer reviews!
Join us for this virtual workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social to learn about the dos and don'ts of effective & constructive peer reviews!
What strategies can you use to provide effective peer reviews?
Join us for a virtual workshop with @blackinneuro.bsky.social! We'll discuss the structure & content of peer reviews & provide advice about how to write your first review.
Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989
Join us for a virtual workshop with @blackinneuro.bsky.social! We'll discuss the structure & content of peer reviews & provide advice about how to write your first review.
Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989
November 21, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Peer reviews can vary from harsh and demoralizing to constructive and kind. How can we make sure the peer reviews we write fall into the latter group?
Join us for this virtual workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social to learn about the dos and don'ts of effective & constructive peer reviews!
Join us for this virtual workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social to learn about the dos and don'ts of effective & constructive peer reviews!
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GEM 2025 is now on line. Find out who our keynote speakers for 2025 are!
for2812.rub.de/gem2025
#DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience
for2812.rub.de/gem2025
#DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience
November 25, 2024 at 11:15 AM
GEM 2025 is now on line. Find out who our keynote speakers for 2025 are!
for2812.rub.de/gem2025
#DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience
for2812.rub.de/gem2025
#DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience
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How can we motivate action to address climate change? We tested 17 psych interventions at once in a tournament! @falklab.bsky.social
If you’re attending #psynom24, come to my talk from 11:40-12 TOMORROW (11/22) to find out the winning strategies! Marquis B-C!
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
If you’re attending #psynom24, come to my talk from 11:40-12 TOMORROW (11/22) to find out the winning strategies! Marquis B-C!
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 3:17 PM
How can we motivate action to address climate change? We tested 17 psych interventions at once in a tournament! @falklab.bsky.social
If you’re attending #psynom24, come to my talk from 11:40-12 TOMORROW (11/22) to find out the winning strategies! Marquis B-C!
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
If you’re attending #psynom24, come to my talk from 11:40-12 TOMORROW (11/22) to find out the winning strategies! Marquis B-C!
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
Hey, anybody here?
November 8, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Hey, anybody here?