Publications/Funding

Publications  (N = 46; *indicates shared first-authorship; †indicates undergraduate trainee)

Google Scholar

1. Thakral, P.P., Cutting, E.R.†, & Lawless, K.E.† (in press). The dead salmon strikes again: Reports of unconscious processing in the hippocampus may reflect Type-I error. Cognitive Neuroscience.

2. Schacter, D.L. & Thakral, P.P. (in press). Constructive memory and conscious experience. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

3. Thakral, P.P., Starkey, C.C.†, Devitt, A.L., & Schacter, D.L. (in press). Are false memory and creative thinking mediated by common neural substrates? An fMRI meta-analysis. Creativity Research Journal.

4. Thakral, P.P., Barberio, N.M.†, Devitt, A.L., & Schacter, D.L. (2023). Constructive episodic retrieval processes underlying memory distortion contribute to creative thinking and everyday problem solving. Memory & Cognition, 51, 1125-1144.

5. Coughlan, G., Bouffard, N.R., Golestani, A., Thakral, P.P., Schacter, D.L., Grady, C., & Moscovitch, M. (2023). Transcranial magnetic stimulation to the angular gyrus modulates the temporal dynamics of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 33, 3255-3264.

6. Fritch, H.A., Moo, L.R., Sullivan, M.A.†, Thakral, P.P., & Slotnick, S.D. (2023). Impaired cognitive performance in older adults is associated with deficits in item memory and memory for object features. Brain and Cognition, 166, 105957-105966.

7. Fritch, H.A., Jeye, B.M., Spets, D.S., Scali, R.P.†, Thakral, P.P., & Slotnick, S.D. (2023). Prefrontal cortex-mediated inhibition supports face recognition. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 334, 111693-111699.

8. Thakral, P.P., Yu, S.S., & Rugg, M.D. (2022). Sensitivity of the hippocampus to objective but not subjective episodic memory judgments. Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 165-170.

9. Thakral, P.P.*, Bottary, R.M.*, Kensinger, E.A. (2022). Representing the Good and Bad: fMRI signatures during the encoding of multisensory positive, negative, and neutral events. Cortex. 151, 240-258.

10. Thakral, P. P., Devitt, A. L., Brashier, N. M., & Schacter, D. L. (2021). Linking creativity and false memory: Common consequences of a flexible memory system. Cognition, 217, 104905-104918.

11. Thakral, P.P., Yang, A.C.†, Addis, D.R., Schacter, D.L. (2021). Divergent thinking and constructing future events: Dissociating old from new ideas. Memory, 29, 729-734.

12. Devitt, A.L., Thakral, P.P., & Schacter, D.L. (2021). Decoding the emotional valence of future thoughts. Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 10-14.

13. Fritch, H.A., Thakral, P.P., Slotnick, S.D., Ross, R.S. (2021). Distinct patterns of hippocampal activity associated with color and spatial source memory. Hippocampus, 31, 1039-1047

14. Spets, D.S., Fritch, H.A., Thakral, P.P., & Slotnick, S.D. (2021). High confidence spatial long-term memories produce greater cortical activity in males than females. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 112-119.

15. Carpenter, A.C., Thakral, P.P., Preston, A.R., Schacter, D.L. (2021). Reinstatement of item-specific contextual details during retrieval supports recombination-related false memories. NeuroImage, 236, 118033- 118051.

16. Devitt, A.L., Thakral, P.P., Szpunar, K., Addis, D.R., & Schacter, D.L. (2020). Age-related changes in repetition suppression of neural activity during emotional future simulation. Neurobiology of Aging, 94, 287-297.

17. Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., Kalinowski, S.E., & Schacter, D.L. (2020). Modulation of hippocampal brain networks produces changes in episodic simulation and divergent thinking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, 12729-12740.

18. Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., & Addis, D.R., Schacter, D.L. (2020). Reinstatement of event details during episodic simulation in the hippocampus. Cerebral Cortex, 30, 2321-2337.

19. Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., & Schacter, D.L. (2020). The core episodic simulation network dissociates as a function of subjective experience and objective content. Neuropsychologia, 136, 1-12.

20. Fritch, H.A., MacEvoy, S.P., Thakral, P.P., Jeye, B.M., Ross, R.S., Slotnick, S.D. (2020). The anterior hippocampus is associated with spatial memory encoding. Brain Research, 1732, 1-8.

21. Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., Devitt, A.L., & Schacter, D.L. (2019). Adaptive constructive processes: An episodic specificity induction impacts false recall in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1480-1493.

22. Thakral, P.P., Wang, T.H., & Rugg, M.D. (2019). Effects of age on across-participant variability of cortical reinstatement effects. NeuroImage, 191, 162-175.

23. Madore, K.P., Thakral, P.P., Beaty, R.E., Addis, D.R., & Schacter, D.L. (2019). Neural mechanisms of episodic retrieval support divergent creative thinking. Cerebral Cortex, 29, 150-166.

24. Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., & Schacter, D.L. (2019). Content-specific phenomenological similarity between episodic memory and simulation. Memory, 27, 417-422.

25. Koen, J.D.*, Thakral, P.P.*, & Rugg, M.D. (2018). Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left angular gyrus during encoding does not impair associative memory performance. Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 127-138.

26. Beaty, R.E., Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., Benedek, M., Schacter, D.L. (2018). Core network contributions to remembering the past, imagining the future, and thinking creatively. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 1939-1951.

27. 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, 76-80.

28. Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., & Schacter, D.L. (2017). A role for the left angular gyrus in episodic simulation and memory. The Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 8142-8149.

29. Thakral, P.P., Benoit, R.G., & Schacter, D.L. (2017). Characterizing the role of the hippocampus during episodic simulation and episodic encoding. Hippocampus, 27, 1275-1284.

30. 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.

31. Thakral, P.P., Wang, T.H., & Rugg, M.D. (2017). Decoding the content of recollection within the core recollection network and beyond. Cortex, 91, 101-113.

32. Thakral, P.P., Jacobs, C.M.†, & Slotnick, S.D. (2017). An attention account of neural priming. Memory, 25, 856-864.

33. Thakral, P.P., Kensinger, E.A., & Slotnick, S.D. (2016). Familiarity and priming are mediated by overlapping neural substrates. Brain Research, 1632, 107-118.

34. Thakral, P.P., Wang, T.H., & Rugg, M.D. (2015). Cortical reinstatement and the confidence and accuracy of source memory. NeuroImage, 109, 118-129.

35. Thakral, P.P., Yu, S.S., & Rugg, M.D. (2015). The hippocampus is sensitive to the mismatch in novelty between items and their contexts. Brain Research, 1602, 144-152.

36. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick S.D. (2015). The sensory timecourses associated with conscious visual item memory and source memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 290, 143-151.

37. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick S.D. (2014). Nonconscious memory for motion activates MT+. NeuroReport, 25, 1326-1330.

38. Thakral, P.P., Slotnick S.D., & Schacter, D.L. (2013). Conscious processing during retrieval activates early and late visual regions. Neuropsychologia, 51, 482-487.

39. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick S.D. (2013). The role of spatial attention during spatial encoding. Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 73-80.

40. Slotnick, S.D. & Thakral, P.P. (2013). The hippocampus operates in a threshold manner during spatial source memory. NeuroReport, 24, 265-269.

41. Thakral, P.P., Moo, L.R., & Slotnick S.D. (2012). A neural mechanism for aesthetic experience. NeuroReport, 23, 310-313.

42. Thakral, P.P. (2011). The neural substrates associated with inattentional blindness. Consciousness & Cognition, 20, 1768-1775.

43. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick S.D. (2011). Disruption of MT preferentially impairs motion processing. Neuroscience Letters, 490, 226-230.

44. Slotnick, S.D. & Thakral, P.P. (2011). Memory for motion and spatial location is mediated by contralateral and ipsilateral motion processing cortex. NeuroImage, 55, 794-800.

45. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick, S.D. (2010). Attentional inhibition mediates inattentional blindness. Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 636-643.

46. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick, S.D. (2009). The role of parietal cortex during sustained visual spatial attention. Brain Research, 1202, 157-166.

Chapters

1. Schacter, D.L., Carpenter, A.C., Devitt, A.L., & Thakral, P.P. (in press). Memory errors and distortion. In M.J. Kahana and A.D. Wagner (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory. New York: Oxford University Press

Funding

1. Brain networks predicting variability in episodic memory quality (NIH/NIMH Grant, R01MH125990)

Role: Co-Principal Investigator 

08/2022-05/2026.

2. Bringing positive and negative events to mind: Effects of age on emotional memory retrieval  (NIH/NIA Grant 1R01AG075031)

Role: Co-Principal Investigator 

09/2022-06/2027

3. Cognitive and neural factors shaping the multidimensional quality of episodic memory (NSF CAREER Grant 2047415)

Role: Research Scientist

10/2021-09/2026

4. Event-related neuroimaging of human memory formation (NIH/NIMH Grant 2R01MH060941)

Role: Consultant

09/2021-06/2026