Antoine Bouyeure

Postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience working on traumatic memory, autobiographical memory, hippocampal function, and ultra-high-field fMRI.

Selected Publications

Fear learning, extinction, and contextual memory

  • Bouyeure, A., Pacheco-Estefan, D., Fellner, M. C., Jacob, G., Kobelt, M., Rose, J., & Axmacher, N.
    Distinct representational properties of cues and contexts shape fear learning and extinction.
    eLife (2026). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.105126.3

  • Pacheco-Estefan, D., Bouyeure, A., Jacob, G., Fellner, M. C., Lehongre, K., Lambrecq, V., et al.
    Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain.
    Nature Human Behaviour (2025).
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02268-5

  • Axmacher, N., Pacheco-Estefan, D., Bouyeure, A., Chen, Q.
    Extinction memories: putting learning into context.
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2026).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.001

Laminar fMRI and hippocampal imaging

  • Bouyeure, A., Pfaffenrot, V., Gomes, C. A., Kashyap, S., Axmacher, N., & Norris, D. G.
    Characterizing BOLD activation patterns in the human hippocampus with laminar fMRI.
    Imaging Neuroscience (2025).

  • Ahmadi, K., Swegle, S., Kashyap, S., Bouyeure, A., Bandettini, P., Axmacher, N., & Huber, L.
    Blood volume sensitive laminar fMRI with VASO in human hippocampus: capabilities and biophysical challenges at clinical 7T scanners.
    Imaging Neuroscience (2026).

Developmental and systems-level memory neuroscience

  • Bouyeure, A., Bekha, D., Patil, S., Hertz-Pannier, L., & Noulhiane, M.
    Maturity of white matter tracts is associated with episodic memory recall during development.
    Cerebral Cortex Communications (2022).

  • Bouyeure, A., Patil, S., Mauconduit, F., Poiret, C., Isai, D., & Noulhiane, M.
    Hippocampal subfield volumes and memory discrimination in the developing brain.
    Hippocampus (2021).

Selected Talks

  • The neural mechanisms of unwanted trauma memories
    Invited talk, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), 2025

  • Layer-fMRI of the human hippocampus during pattern separation
    Talk, Spring Hippocampal Research Conference, 2025

Open Science and Code

Code repositories and analysis workflows:
👉 https://github.com/AntoineBouyeure