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PUBLICATIONS
Publications = 49; h-index = 23; *indicates shared first-authorship; †indicates undergraduate trainee
Publications = 49; h-index = 23; *indicates shared first-authorship; †indicates undergraduate trainee
For multi-authored publications: The following categories are used to describe my contribution: D: Designed the inquiry or study, including methodological development / O: Obtained the information (e.g., collected data, investigated primary sources, etc.) / A: Analyzed and interpreted the information / W: Wrote/drafted the paper / R: Critical revision of the paper
For multi-authored publications: The following categories are used to describe my contribution: D: Designed the inquiry or study, including methodological development / O: Obtained the information (e.g., collected data, investigated primary sources, etc.) / A: Analyzed and interpreted the information / W: Wrote/drafted the paper / R: Critical revision of the paper
1. Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., & Gomez, R.E.†, Devitt, A.L. (in press). Episodic and semantic memory contributions to imagination and creativity. Memory. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
2. Thakral, P.P., Starkey, C.C.†, Devitt, A.L., & Schacter, D.L. (2025). Are false memory and creative thinking mediated by common neural substrates? An fMRI meta-analysis. Creativity Research Journal, 37, 6-21. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
3. Thakral, P.P., Cutting, E.R.†, & Lawless, K.E.† (2024). The dead salmon strikes again: Reports of unconscious processing in the hippocampus may reflect Type-I error. Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 79-82. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
4. Schacter, D.L. & Thakral, P.P. (2024). Constructive memory and conscious experience. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 1567-1577. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
5. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
6. 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. My contribution: D, O, R
7. 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. My contribution: A, R
8. 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. My contribution: A, R
9. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
10. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
11. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
12. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
13. Devitt, A.L., Thakral, P.P., & Schacter, D.L. (2021). Decoding the emotional valence of future thoughts. Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 10-14. My contribution: D, O, R
14. 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. My contribution: A, R
15. 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. My contribution: A, R
16. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, R
17. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, R
18. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
19. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
20. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
21. 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. My contribution: A, R
22. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
23. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
24. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, R
25. Thakral, P.P., Madore, K.P., & Schacter, D.L. (2019). Content-specific phenomenological similarity between episodic memory and simulation. Memory, 27, 417-422. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
26. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
27. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, R
28. 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. My contribution: A, R
29. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
30. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
31. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
32. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
33. Thakral, P.P., Jacobs, C.M.†, & Slotnick, S.D. (2017). An attention account of neural priming. Memory, 25, 856-864. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
34. Thakral, P.P., Kensinger, E.A., & Slotnick, S.D. (2016). Familiarity and priming are mediated by overlapping neural substrates. Brain Research, 1632, 107-118. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
35. Thakral, P.P., Wang, T.H., & Rugg, M.D. (2015). Cortical reinstatement and the confidence and accuracy of source memory. NeuroImage, 109, 118-129. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
36. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
37. 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. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
38. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick S.D. (2014). Nonconscious memory for motion activates MT+. NeuroReport, 25, 1326-1330. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
39. Thakral, P.P., Slotnick S.D., & Schacter, D.L. (2013). Conscious processing during retrieval activates early and late visual regions. Neuropsychologia, 51, 482-487. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
40. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick S.D. (2013). The role of spatial attention during spatial encoding. Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 73-80. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
41. Slotnick, S.D. & Thakral, P.P. (2013). The hippocampus operates in a threshold manner during spatial source memory. NeuroReport, 24, 265-269. My contribution: D, A, R
42. Thakral, P.P., Moo, L.R., & Slotnick S.D. (2012). A neural mechanism for aesthetic experience. NeuroReport, 23, 310-313. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
43. Thakral, P.P. (2011). The neural substrates associated with inattentional blindness. Consciousness & Cognition, 20, 1768-1775. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
44. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick S.D. (2011). Disruption of MT preferentially impairs motion processing. Neuroscience Letters, 490, 226-230. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
45. 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. My contribution: O, R
46. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick, S.D. (2010). Attentional inhibition mediates inattentional blindness. Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 636-643. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
47. Thakral, P.P. & Slotnick, S.D. (2009). The role of parietal cortex during sustained visual spatial attention. Brain Research, 1202, 157-166. My contribution: D, O, A, W, R
Chapters
1. Schacter, D.L., Carpenter, A.C., Devitt, A.L., & Thakral, P.P. (2024). Memory errors and distortion. In M.J. Kahana and A.D. Wagner (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory. New York: Oxford University Press. My contribution: O, A, R
Funding
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
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