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Antoine Bouyeure

I am a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), currently based in Paris (France). My work examines the neural mechanisms of memory with a focus on traumatic memory, autobiographical memory, fear and extinction learning, and hippocampal function. More broadly, I study how memory representations (of neutral or of traumatic events) are formed, stabilized, transformed, and generalized across experience. My long-term objective is to establish a mechanistic account of how memory representations become maladaptive in psychiatric conditions and to identify neural markers that can inform targeted interventions for trauma-related disorders. To address these questions, I combine cognitive paradigms, ultra-high-field (7T MRI) neuroimaging, and computational analyses.

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Research Focus

Memory representations and generalization. I study how memory representations evolve during fear and extinction learning and how generalization contributes to adaptive versus maladaptive memory.

Traumatic memory. I investigate mechanisms underlying the persistence, updating and suppression of aversive memories.

Hippocampal function and laminar fMRI. I use high-resolution neuroimaging to examine hippocampal organization and cortical–hippocampal interactions, including laminar analyses at ultra-high field fMRI.

Translational neuropsychiatry. A main aim of my work is to link neural dynamics to clinically relevant processes such as psychiatric symptoms, resilience factors and vulnerability factors.