Publications
Selected Publications
Zhang, L., Alain, C., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2026). Different reliance on sensory reinstatement and internally transformed representations during vivid retrieval of visual and auditory episodes. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1576-25.2026
Bone, M. B., Levine, B., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2025). Individual differences in visual versus semantic neural reactivation: Evidence from severely deficient autobiographical memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02317
Kulkarni, M., Jiang, L., Robin, J., Choi, J. W., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Olsen, R. K. (2025). Scene-sensitive medial temporal lobe subregions are recruited for the integration of nonscene stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.a.73
Vuong, V., O’Neil, M. J., Dimitrijevic, A., Buchsbaum, B. R., Thaut, M. H., & Alain, C. (2025). When melodies cue memories: Electrophysiological correlates of autobiographically salient music listening in older adults. GeroScience. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01860-x
Buchsbaum, B. R., Moscovitch, M., Tang, K., Ziegler, M., & Craik, F. I. M. (2024). The interactive effects of divided attention and semantic elaboration on associative recognition memory: An fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae464
Barker, R., St-Laurent, M., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2022). Neural reactivation and judgements of vividness reveal separable contributions to mnemonic representation. NeuroImage, 253, 119205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119205
Chan, T., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Alain, C. (2022). Effects of temporal order and intentionality on reflective attention to words in noise. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01494-6
Chow, J. K., Rhodes, S., Rule, N. O., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Hasher, L. (2022). Absence of a mere-exposure effect in older and younger adults. Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000702
Davison, C., Weeks, J. C., Grady, C., Hasher, L., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2022). Influence of target-distractor neural similarity on working memory performance in older and younger adults. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2022.2036682
Bone, M. B., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2021). Detailed episodic memory depends on concurrent reactivation of basic visual features within the posterior hippocampus and early visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2(3), tgab045. https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgab045
Buchsbaum, M. S., Mitelman, S. A., Christian, B., Merrill, B. M., Buchsbaum, B. R., Mitelman, D., Mukherjee, J., & Lehrer, D. (2021). Four-modality imaging of unmedicated subjects with schizophrenia: 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose and 18F-fallypride PET, diffusion tensor imaging, and MRI. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 315, 111428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2021.111428
Loo, C., Lee, A. C. H., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2021). Multivariate fMRI signatures of learning in a Hebb repetition paradigm with tone sequences. Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 674275. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.674275
Mitelman, S. A., Buchsbaum, M. S., Vyas, N. S., Christian, B., Merrill, B. M., Buchsbaum, B. R., Mitelman, A. M., Mukherjee, J., & Lehrer, D. (2021). Reading abilities and dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability: An inverted U-shaped association in subjects with schizophrenia. Brain and Language, 223, 105046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105046
Rhodes, S., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Hasher, L. (2021). The influence of long-term memory on working memory: Age-differences in proactive facilitation and interference. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01981-2
Backer, K., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Alain, C. (2020). Orienting attention to short-term memory representations via sensory modality and semantic category retro-cues. eNeuro, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0018-20.2020
Bone, M. B., Ahmad, F. N., & Bhuchsbaum, B. R. (2020). Feature-specific neural reactivation during episodic memory. Nature Communications, 11, 1945. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15763-2
Geier, K. T., Buchsbaum, B. R., Parimoo, S., & Olsen, R. K. (2020). The role of anterior and medial dorsal thalamus in associative memory encoding and retrieval. Neuropsychologia, 148, 107623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107623
Glen, D. R., Taylor, P. A., Buchsbaum, B. R., Cox, R. W., & Reynolds, R. C. (2020). Beware (surprisingly common) left-right flips in your MRI data: An efficient and robust method to check MRI dataset consistency using AFNI. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 14, 18. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2020.00018
Mitelman, S. A., Buchsbaum, M. S., Christian, B., Merrill, B. M., Adineh, M., DeCastro, A., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Lehrer, D. (2020). Relationship between white matter glucose metabolism and fractional anisotropy in healthy and schizophrenia subjects. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 306, 111060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2020.111060
Mitelman, S. A., Buchsbaum, M. S., Christian, B., Merrill, B. M., Buchsbaum, B. R., Mukherjee, J., & Lehrer, D. (2020). Positive association between cerebral grey matter metabolism and dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability in healthy and schizophrenia subjects. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1080/15622975.2019.1671609
St-Laurent, M., Rosenbaum, R. S., Olsen, R. K., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2020). Representation of viewed and recalled film clips in patterns of brain activity in a person with developmental amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 140, 107436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107436
Weeks, J. C., Grady, C., Hasher, L., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2020). Holding on to the past: Older adults show lingering neural activation of no-longer-relevant items in working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(10), 1946–1962. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01596
Wynn, J. S., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Ryan, J. D. (2020). Encoding and retrieval eye movements mediate age differences in pattern completion. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104083
Wynn, J. S., Ryan, J. D., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2020). Eye movements support behavioral pattern completion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(11), 6246–6254. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917586117
Bone, M. B., St-Laurent, M., Dang, C., McQuiggan, D. A., Ryan, J. D., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2019). Eye movement reinstatement and neural reactivation during mental imagery. Cerebral Cortex, 29(3), 1075–1089. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy014
Buchsbaum, B. R. (2019). Verbal working memory. In The oxford handbook of neurolinguistics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190672027.013.32
Buchsbaum, B. R., & D’Esposito, M. (2019). A sensorimotor view of verbal working memory. Cortex, 112, 134–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.010
St-Laurent, M., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2019). How multiple retrievals impact neural reactivation in young and older adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 74(7), 1182–1193. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz075
Mitelman, S. A., Buchsbaum, M. S., Christian, B., Merrill, B. M., Buchsbaum, B. R., Mukherjee, J., & Lehrer, D. (2018). Dopamine receptor density and white matter integrity: 18F-fallypride positron emission tomography and diffusion tensor imaging study in healthy and schizophrenia subjects. Brain Imaging and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-018-0012-0
Robin, J., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Moscovitch, M. (2018). The primacy of spatial context in the neural representation of events. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(11), 2755–2765. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1638-17.2018
Wynn, J. S., Olsen, R. K., Binns, M. A., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Ryan, J. D. (2018). Fixation reinstatement supports visuospatial memory in older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(7), 1119–1127. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000522
Buchsbaum, B. R., & D’Esposito, M. (2017). Short-term and working memory. In Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.21081-X
Arsenault, J. S., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2016). No evidence of somatotopic place of articulation feature mapping in motor cortex during passive speech perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1231–1240. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0988-z
Buchsbaum, B. R. (2016). Working memory and language. In Neurobiology of language. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-407794-2.00069-9
Du, Y., Buchsbaum, B. R., Grady, C., & Alain, C. (2016). Increased activity in frontal motor cortex compensates impaired speech perception in older adults. Nature Communications, 7, 12241. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12241
Rabin, J. S., Olsen, R. K., Gilboa, A., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Rosenbaum, R. S. (2016). Using fMRI to understand event construction in developmental amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 90, 261–273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.036
Wynn, J. S., Bone, M. B., Dragan, M., Hoffman, K., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Ryan, J. D. (2016). Selective scanpath repetition during memory-guided visual search. Visual Cognition, 24(1), 15–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2016.1175531
Arsenault, J. S., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2015). Distributed neural representations of phonological features during speech perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(2), 634–642. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2454-14.2015
Buchsbaum, B. R., Lemire-Rodger, S., Bondad, A., & Chepesiuk, A. M. P. (2015). Recency, repetition, and the multidimensional basis of recognition memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(8), 3544–3554. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2999-14.2015
Fegen, D., Buchsbaum, B. R., & D’Esposito, M. (2015). The effect of rehearsal rate and memory load on verbal working memory. NeuroImage, 105, 120–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.034
Rose, N. S., Craik, F. I. M., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2015). Levels of processing in working memory: Differential involvement of frontotemporal networks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(3), 522–532. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00738
St-Laurent, M., Abdi, H., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2015). Distributed patterns of reactivation predict vividness of recollection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(10), 2000–2018. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00839
Du, Y., Buchsbaum, B. R., Grady, C., & Alain, C. (2014). Noise differentially impacts phoneme representations in the auditory and speech motor systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(19), 7126–7131. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1318738111
Olsen, R. K., Chiew, M., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Ryan, J. D. (2014). The relationship between delay period eye movements and visuospatial memory. Journal of Vision, 14(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.1.8
Rose, N. S., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Craik, F. I. M. (2014). Short-term retention of a single word relies on retrieval from long-term memory when both rehearsal and refreshing are disrupted. Memory & Cognition, 42, 689–700. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-014-0398-x
St-Laurent, M., Abdi, H., Bondad, A., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2014). Memory reactivation in healthy aging: Evidence of stimulus-specific dedifferentiation. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(12), 4175–4186. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3054-13.2014
Buchsbaum, B. R. (2013). The role of consciousness in the phonological loop: Hidden in plain sight. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 496. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00496
Buchsbaum, B. R., Erickson, D. T., & Kayser, A. (2013). Decomposing effects of time on task reveals an anteroposterior gradient of perceptual decision regions. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e72074. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072074
Buchsbaum, B. R., Lemire-Rodger, S., Fang, C., & Abdi, H. (2012). The neural basis of vivid memory is patterned on perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(9), 1867–1883. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00253
Pichika, R., Buchsbaum, M. S., Bailer, U., Hoh, C., DeCastro, A., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Kaye, W. (2012). Serotonin transporter binding after recovery from bulimia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 45(3), 345–352. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.20944
Buchsbaum, B. R., Baldo, J., Okada, K., Berman, K. F., Dronkers, N. L., D’Esposito, M., & Hickok, G. (2011). Conduction aphasia, sensory-motor integration, and phonological short-term memory – an aggregate analysis of lesion and fMRI data. Brain and Language, 119(3), 119–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2010.12.001
Buchsbaum, B. R., Padmanabhan, A., & Berman, K. F. (2011). The neural substrates of recognition memory for verbal information: Spanning the divide between short- and long-term memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(4), 978–991. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2010.21496
Buchsbaum, B. R. (2010). Neural basis of working memory. In Encyclopedia of behavioral neuroscience. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-045396-5.00161-5
Kayser, A. S., Buchsbaum, B. R., Erickson, D. T., & D’Esposito, M. (2010). The functional anatomy of a perceptual decision in the human brain. Journal of Neurophysiology, 103(3), 1179–1194. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00364.2009
Kayser, A. S., Erickson, D. T., Buchsbaum, B. R., & D’Esposito, M. (2010). Neural representations of relevant and irrelevant features in perceptual decision making. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(47), 15778–15789. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3163-10.2010
Buchsbaum, B. R., & D’Esposito, M. (2009a). Is there anything special about working memory? In Neuroimaging of human memory. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199217298.003.0014
Buchsbaum, B. R., & D’Esposito, M. (2009b). Repetition suppression and reactivation in auditory–verbal short-term recognition memory. Cerebral Cortex, 19(6), 1474–1485. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhn186
Buchsbaum, B. R., & D’Esposito, M. (2008a). Short-term and working memory systems. In Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012370509-9.00103-0
Buchsbaum, B. R., & D’Esposito, M. (2008b). The search for the phonological store: From loop to convolution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(5), 762–778. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.20501
Sarpal, D., Buchsbaum, B. R., Kohn, P., Kippenhan, J. S., Mervis, C., Morris, C., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Berman, K. F. (2008). A genetic model for understanding higher order visual processing: Functional interactions of the ventral visual stream in Williams syndrome. Cerebral Cortex, 18(10), 2402–2409. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhn004
Buchsbaum, M. S., Buchsbaum, B. R., Hazlett, E. A., Haznedar, M. M., Newmark, R., Tang, C. Y., & Hof, P. R. (2007). Relative glucose metabolic rate higher in white matter in patients with schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164(7), 1072–1081. https://doi.org/10.1176/AJP.2007.164.7.1072
Buchsbaum, M. S., Buchsbaum, B. R., Chokron, S., Tang, C. Y., Wei, T.-C., & Byne, W. (2006). Thalamocortical circuits: fMRI assessment of the pulvinar and medial dorsal nucleus in normal volunteers. Neuroscience Letters, 404(3), 282–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NEULET.2006.05.063
Buchsbaum, M. S., Friedman, J., Buchsbaum, B. R., Chu, K.-W., Hazlett, E. A., Newmark, R., Schneiderman, J. S., Torosjan, Y., Tang, C. Y., Hof, P. R., Stewart, D. G., Davis, K. L., & Gorman, J. M. (2006). Diffusion tensor imaging in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 60(11), 1181–1187. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BIOPSYCH.2005.11.028
Buchsbaum, B. R., Greer, S., Chang, W., & Berman, K. F. (2005). Meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of the Wisconsin card-sorting task and component processes. Human Brain Mapping, 25(1), 35–45. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.20128
Buchsbaum, B. R., Olsen, R. K., Koch, P. F., & Berman, K. F. (2005). Human dorsal and ventral auditory streams subserve rehearsal-based and echoic processes during verbal working memory. Neuron, 48(4), 687–697. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NEURON.2005.09.029
Buchsbaum, B. R., Olsen, R. K., Koch, P. F., Kohn, P., Kippenhan, J. S., & Berman, K. F. (2005). Reading, hearing, and the planum temporale. NeuroImage, 24(2), 444–454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.08.025
Buchsbaum, B. R., Pickell, B., Love, T., Hatrak, M., Bellugi, U., & Hickok, G. (2005). Neural substrates for verbal working memory in deaf signers: fMRI study and lesion case report. Brain and Language, 95(2), 265–272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2005.01.009
Koenigsberg, H. W., Buchsbaum, M. S., Buchsbaum, B. R., Schneiderman, J. S., Tang, C. Y., New, A., Goodman, M., & Siever, L. J. (2005). Functional MRI of visuospatial working memory in schizotypal personality disorder: A region-of-interest analysis. Psychological Medicine, 35(7), 1019–1030. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291705004393
Lehrer, D., Christian, B., Mantil, J., Murray, A. C., Buchsbaum, B. R., Oakes, T., Byne, W., Kemether, E., & Buchsbaum, M. S. (2005). Thalamic and prefrontal FDG uptake in never medicated patients with schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162(5), 931–938. https://doi.org/10.1176/APPI.AJP.162.5.931
Gaser, C., Nenadic, I., Buchsbaum, B. R., Hazlett, E. A., & Buchsbaum, M. S. (2004). Ventricular enlargement in schizophrenia related to volume reduction of the thalamus, striatum, and superior temporal cortex. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161(1), 154–156. https://doi.org/10.1176/APPI.AJP.161.1.154
Hickok, G., & Buchsbaum, B. R. (2003). Temporal lobe speech perception systems are part of the verbal working memory circuit: Evidence from two recent fMRI studies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26(6), 740–741. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X03340166
Hickok, G., Buchsbaum, B. R., Humphries, C. J., & Muftuler, T. (2003). Auditory–motor interaction revealed by fMRI: Speech, music, and working memory in area Spt. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(5), 673–682. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2003.15.5.673
Buchsbaum, B. R., Hickok, G., & Humphries, C. J. (2001). Role of left posterior superior temporal gyrus in phonological processing for speech perception and production. Cognitive Science, 25(5), 663–678. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-0213(01)00048-9
Buchsbaum, M. S., Hollander, E., Haznedar, M. M., Tang, C. Y., Spiegel-Cohen, J., Wei, T.-C., Solimando, A., Buchsbaum, B. R., Robins, D., Bienstock, C., Cartwright, C., & Mosovich, S. (2001). Effect of fluoxetine on regional cerebral metabolism in autistic spectrum disorders: A pilot study. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 4(2), 119–125. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1461145701002280
Gaser, C., Nenadic, I., Buchsbaum, B. R., Hazlett, E. A., & Buchsbaum, M. S. (2001). Deformation-based morphometry and its relation to conventional volumetry of brain lateral ventricles in MRI. NeuroImage, 13(6), 1140–1145. https://doi.org/10.1006/NIMG.2001.0771
Humphries, C. J., Willard, K., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Hickok, G. (2001). Role of anterior temporal cortex in auditory sentence comprehension: An fMRI study. NeuroReport, 12(8), 1749–1752. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200106130-00046
Hazlett, E. A., Buchsbaum, M. S., Haznedar, M. M., Singer, M. B., Germans, M. K., Schnur, D. B., Jimenez, E. A., Buchsbaum, B. R., & Troyer, B. T. (1998). Prefrontal cortex glucose metabolism and startle eyeblink modification abnormalities in unmedicated schizophrenia patients. Psychophysiology, 35(2), 186–198. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8986.3520186