Roland Benoit

  • Associate Professor
  • Cognitive
  • PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
  • INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Dr. Benoit is the Principle Investigator of the Adaptive Memory Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an Associate Professor at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Institute of Cognitive Science. Before joining ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Dr. Benoit was the head of the research group Adaptive Memory at the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Prior to starting his own lab, he received his Ph.D. from University College London under the supervision of Paul W. Burgess and conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow with Michael C. Anderson at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, and with Daniel L. Schacter at Harvard University. 

Education: PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 2010

Research Interests: My research examines how we suppress memories of our past and create imaginings of our future. For more details, please see /lab/adaptivememory/research.