Publications – LANI Lab

Preprints/Submitted Work

Bruellman, R., Finlay, J., Bennett, I.J., Reynolds, C. (under review). Beyond proximity: How food quality in dollar and grocery stores influences health.
Bennett, I.J., Langley. J., Page, A., Hu, X. (under review). Diffusion-weighted MRS measures of glial-specific metabolites consistent with age-related hippocampal neuroinflammation.
Sanchez, D.L., Bennett, I.J., ADNI (under review). Sex and cognitive status independently affect hippocampal and cortical lobar cerebral blood flow in nondemented older adults.

Langley, J., Sumanth, D., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (under review). Striatal tau burden is increased in APOE-ε4+ mild cognitive impairment.
Bruellman, R., Pahlen, S., Ellingson, J., Corley, R., Wadsworth, S., Bennett, I.J., Reynolds, C. (under review). Evaluating the comparability of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity on health biomarkers in established adulthood: A twin substitution analysis.
Dastgheib, M., Sun, A.Y., Yaghoubi, K.C., Zhang, W., Peters, M.A.K., Bennett, I.J., Seitz, A.R. (under review). Effects of concurrent task difficulty and physical effort on memory and perceptual performance and pupil response in younger adults.

2026

Solis, K., Shao, M., Langley, J., Seitz, A.R., Hu, X., Bennett, I.J. (2026). Handgrip strength relates to corticospinal tract microstructure in older adults. Brain Research Bulletin.
Langley, J., Solis, K., Masjedizadeh, V., Shao, M., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2026). Associations between iron and mean kurtosis in iron-rich grey matter nuclei in aging. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine.
Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J., Madden, D.J. (2026). Contributions of Gray Matter Microstructure to Differences in fluid cognition and episodic memory across the healthy adult lifespan. Human Brain Mapping, 47, e70511.

2025

Greenman, D., Bennett, I.J. (2025). Aging of gray matter microstructure: A brain-wide characterization of age group differences using NODDI. Neurobiology of Aging, 149, 34-43.
Ghaffari, A., Abouzaki, M., Romero, Y., Sun, A., Seitz, A., Langley, J., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2025). Connectome-based predictive modeling of grip strength: A marker of physical frailty. Frontiers Neuroscience, 19, 1-14.

2024

Bennett, I.J., Langley, J., Sun, A., Solis, K., Seitz, A.R., Hu, X. (2024). Locus coeruleus contrast and diffusivity metrics differentially relate to age and memory performance. Scientific Reports, 14, 15372.
Langley, J., Huddleson, D.E., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2024). Examining iron-related off-target binding effects of 18F-AV1451 PET in the cortex of AB+ individuals. European Journal of Neuroscience, 60, 3614-3628.
Petok, J.R., Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J. (2024). Iron content affects age group differences in associative learning-related fMRI activity. Neuroimage, 285, 12078.

2023

Ibrahim, K., Bennett, I.J. (2023). Hippocampal microstructure, but not macrostructure, mediates age differences in episodic memory. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 15, 1285375.
Noh, S.M., Singla, U.K., Bennett, I.J., Bornstein, A.M. (2023). Memory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lifespan. Scientific Reports, 13, 17014.
Merenstein, J.L., Corrada, M.M., Kawas, C.H., Bennett, I.J. (2023). White matter microstructure correlates of associative learning in the oldest-old. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23, 114-124.
Franco, C., Alcaraz-Torres, A., Bennett, I.J. (2023). The QuadMax Task: A novel parametric manipulation of associative memory load in adults across the lifespan. Experimental Aging Research, 49, 321-333.

Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J. (2023). Neuroimaging studies of mental disorders. In Markey, C. & Friedman, H.S. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.
Granger, S.J., Colon-Perez, L., Larson, M.S., Bennett, I.J., Phelan, M., Keator, D.B., Janecek, J.T., Sathishkumar, M.T., Smith, A.P., McMillan, L., Greenia, D., Corrada, M.M., Kawas, C.H., Yassa, M.A. (2023). Reduced structural connectivity of the medial temporal lobe including the perforant path is associated with aging and verbal memory impairment. Neurobiology of Aging, 121, 119-128.

2022

Glenn, D., Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J., Michalska, K.J. (2022). Anxiety symptoms and puberty interactively lower cingulum microstructure in preadolescent Latina girls. Scientific Reports, 12, 20775.
Radhakrishnan, H., Bennett, I.J., Stark, C.E.L. (2022). Higher-order multi-shell diffusion measures complement tensor metrics and volume in gray matter when predicting age and cognition. Neuroimage, 253, 119063.
Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J. (2022). Bridging patterns of neurocognitive aging across the older adult lifespan. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 135, 104594.
Merenstein, J.L., Petok, J.R., Bennett, I.J. (2022). Age group differences in learning-related activity reflect task stage, not learning stage. Behavioural Brain Research, 416, 113570.
Langley, J., Hussain, S., Huddleson, D.E., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2022). Impact of locus coeruleus and its projections on memory and aging. Brain Connectivity, 12, 223-233.

2021

Venkatesh, A., Daugherty, A.M., Bennett, I.J. (2021). Neuroimaging measures of iron and gliosis explain memory performance in aging. Human Brain Mapping, 42, 5761-5770.
Merenstein, J.L., Corrada, M.M., Kawas, C.H., Bennett, I.J. (2021). Age affects white matter microstructure and episodic memory across the older adult lifespan. Neurobiology of Aging, 106, 282-291.

Shokri-Kojori, E., Bennett, I.J., Tomeldon, Z.A., Krawczyk, D.C., Rypma, B. (2021). Estimates of brain age for gray matter and white matter in younger and older adults: Insights into human intelligence. Brain Research, 1763, 147431.
Franco, C., Petok, J.R., Langley, J., Hu, X., Bennett, I.J. (2021). Implicit associative learning relates to basal ganglia gray matter microstructure in young and older adults. Behavioural Brain Research, 397, 112950.

2020

Venkatesh, A., Stark, S.M., Stark, C.E.L., Bennett, I.J. (2020). Age- and memory-related differences in hippocampal gray matter integrity are better captured by NODDI compared to single-tensor diffusion imaging. Neurobiology of Aging, 96, 12-21.
Houston, J.R., Hughes, L., Bennett, I.J., Allen, P.A., Rogers, J.M., Lien, M., Stoltz, H., Sakaie, K., Loth, F., Maleki, J., Vorster, S.J., Luciano, M.G. (2020). Evidence of neural microstructure abnormalities in Type I Chiari Malformation: Associations between fiber tract integrity, pain, and cognitive dysfunction. Pain Medicine, 21, 2323-2335.
Klippenstein, J.L., Stark, S.M., Stark, C.E.L., Bennett, I.J. (2020). Neural substrates of mnemonic discrimination: A whole-brain fMRI investigation. Brain and Behavior, 10, e01560.
Langley, J., Hussain, S., Flores, J.J., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2020). Characterization of age-related microstructural changes in locus coeruleus and substantia nigra pars compacta. Neurobiology of Aging, 87, 89-97.

2019

Bennett, I.J., Stark, S.M., Stark, C.E.L. (2019). Recognition memory dysfunction relates to hippocampal subfield volume: A study of cognitively normal and mildly impaired older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 74 (7), 1132-1141.

2017

♥ Birth of my second son

Bennett, I.J., Greenia, D.E., Maillard, P., Sajjadi, S.A., DeCarli, C., Corrada, M.M., Kawas, C.H. (2017). Age-related white matter integrity differences in oldest-old without dementia. Neurobiology of Aging, 56, 108-114.

2016

♦ Start of the LANI Lab

Bennett, I.J., Stark, C.E.L. (2016). Mnemonic discrimination relates to perforant path integrity: An ultra-high resolution diffusion tensor imaging study. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 129, 107-112.
Houston, J.R., Bennett, I.J., Allen, P.A., Madden, D.J. (2016). Visual acuity does not moderate effect sizes of higher-level cognitive tasks. Experimental Aging Research, 42 (3), 221-263.
Turner, M.P., Hubbard, N.A., Himes, L.M., Faghihahmadabadi, S., Hutchison, J.L., Bennett, I.J., Motes, M.A., Haley, R.W., Rypma, B. (2016) Cognitive slowing in Gulf War Illness predicts executive network hyper connectivity: Studies in a population-representative sample. Neuroimage Clinical, 12, 535-541.

2015

Bennett, I.J., Huffman, D.J., Stark, C.E.L. (2015). Limbic tract integrity contributes to episodic memory performance across the lifespan. Cerebral Cortex, 25 (9), 2988-2999.

2014

♥ Birth of my first son

Bennett, I.J., Madden, D.J. (2014). Disconnected aging: Cerebral white matter integrity and age-related differences in cognition. Neuroscience, 12 (276), 187-205.
Hubbard, N.A., Hutchison, J.L., Motes. M.A., Kojori, E.S., Bennett, I.J., Brigante, R.M., Haley, R.W., Rypma, B. (2014). Central executive dysfunction and deferred prefrontal processing in veterans with Gulf War Illness. Clinical Psychological Sciences, 2 (3), 319-327.

2013

Bennett, I.J., Rypma, B. (2013). Advances in functional neuroanatomy: A review of combined DTI and fMRI studies in healthy younger and older adults. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37 (7), 1201-1210.
Bennett, I.J., Rivera, H.G., Rypma, B. (2013). Isolating age group differences in working memory load-related neural activity: Assessing the contribution of working memory capacity using a partial-trial fMRI method. Neuroimage, 72, 20-32.

2010 – 2012

Bennett, I.J., Motes, M.A., Rao, N.K., Rypma, B. (2012). White matter integrity predicts visual search performance in young and older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 33 (2), 433.e21-433.e31.
Madden, D.J., Bennett, I.J., Burzynska, A., Potter, G., Song, A.W. (2012). Diffusion tensor imaging of cerebral white matter integrity in cognitive aging. BBA – Molecular Basis of Disease, 1822 (3), 386-400.
Bennett, I.J., Madden, D.J., Vaidya, C.J., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2011). White matter integrity correlates of implicit sequence learning in healthy aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 32 (12), 2317.e1-2317.e12.
Bennett, I.J., Madden, D.J., Vaidya, C.J., Howard, D.V., Howard, J.H., Jr. (2010). Age-related differences in multiple measures of white matter integrity: A diffusion tensor imaging study of healthy aging. Human Brain Mapping, 31 (3), 378-390.

2007 – 2009

Madden, D.J., Bennett, I.J., Song, A.W. (2009). Cerebral white matter integrity and cognitive aging: Contributions from diffusion tensor imaging. Neuropsychology Review, 19 (4), 415-435.
Bennett, I.J., Barnes, K.A., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2009). An abbreviated implicit spatial context learning task that yields greater learning. Behavior Research Methods, 41 (2), 391-395.
Bennett, I.J., Romano, J.C., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2008). Two forms of implicit learning in young adult dyslexics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1145, 184-198.
Bennett, I.J., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2007). Age-related differences in implicit learning of subtle third-order sequential structure. Journal of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 62 (2), 98-103.

2004 – 2006

Bennett, I.J., Golob E.J., Parker, E.S., Starr A. (2006). Memory evaluation in mild cognitive impairment using recall and recognition tests. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 1408-1422.
Bennett, I.J., Golob E.J., Starr A. (2004). Age-related differences in auditory event-related potentials during a cued attention task. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115, 2602-2615.

Preprints/Submitted Work

Bruellman, R., Finlay, J., Bennett, I.J., Reynolds, C. (under review). Beyond proximity: How food quality in dollar and grocery stores influences health.

Bennett, I.J., Langley. J., Page, A., Hu, X. (under review). Diffusion-weighted MRS measures of glial-specific metabolites consistent with age-related hippocampal neuroinflammation.

Sanchez, D.L., Bennett, I.J., ADNI (under review). Sex and cognitive status independently affect hippocampal and cortical lobar cerebral blood flow in nondemented older adults.

Langley, J., Sumanth, D., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (under review). Striatal tau burden is increased in APOE-ε4+ mild cognitive impairment.

Bruellman, R., Pahlen, S., Ellingson, J., Corley, R., Wadsworth, S., Bennett, I.J., Reynolds, C. (under review). Evaluating the comparability of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity on health biomarkers in established adulthood: A twin substitution analysis.

Dastgheib, M., Sun, A.Y., Yaghoubi, K.C., Zhang, W., Peters, M.A.K., Bennett, I.J., Seitz, A.R. (under review). Effects of concurrent task difficulty and physical effort on memory and perceptual performance and pupil response in younger adults.

2026

Solis, K., Shao, M., Langley, J., Seitz, A.R., Hu, X., Bennett, I.J. (2026). Handgrip strength relates to corticospinal tract microstructure in older adults. Brain Research Bulletin.

Langley, J., Solis, K., Masjedizadeh, V., Shao, M., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2026). Associations between iron and mean kurtosis in iron-rich grey matter nuclei in aging. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine.

Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J., Madden, D.J. (2026). Contributions of Gray Matter Microstructure to Differences in fluid cognition and episodic memory across the healthy adult lifespan. Human Brain Mapping, 47, e70511.

2025

Greenman, D., Bennett, I.J. (2025). Aging of gray matter microstructure: A brain-wide characterization of age group differences using NODDI. Neurobiology of Aging, 149, 34-43.

Ghaffari, A., Abouzaki, M., Romero, Y., Sun, A., Seitz, A., Langley, J., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2025). Connectome-based predictive modeling of grip strength: A marker of physical frailty. Frontiers Neuroscience, 19, 1-14.

2024

Bennett, I.J., Langley, J., Sun, A., Solis, K., Seitz, A.R., Hu, X. (2024). Locus coeruleus contrast and diffusivity metrics differentially relate to age and memory performance. Scientific Reports, 14, 15372.

Langley, J., Huddleson, D.E., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2024). Examining iron-related off-target binding effects of 18F-AV1451 PET in the cortex of AB+ individuals. European Journal of Neuroscience, 60, 3614-3628.

Petok, J.R., Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J. (2024). Iron content affects age group differences in associative learning-related fMRI activity. Neuroimage, 285, 12078.

2023

Ibrahim, K., Bennett, I.J. (2023). Hippocampal microstructure, but not macrostructure, mediates age differences in episodic memory. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 15, 1285375.

Noh, S.M., Singla, U.K., Bennett, I.J., Bornstein, A.M. (2023). Memory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lifespan. Scientific Reports, 13, 17014.

Merenstein, J.L., Corrada, M.M., Kawas, C.H., Bennett, I.J. (2023). White matter microstructure correlates of associative learning in the oldest-old. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23, 114-124.

Franco, C., Alcaraz-Torres, A., Bennett, I.J. (2023). The QuadMax Task: A novel parametric manipulation of associative memory load in adults across the lifespan. Experimental Aging Research, 49, 321-333.

Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J. (2023). Neuroimaging studies of mental disorders. In Markey, C. & Friedman, H.S. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.

2022

Glenn, D., Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J., Michalska, K.J. (2022). Anxiety symptoms and puberty interactively lower cingulum microstructure in preadolescent Latina girls. Scientific Reports, 12, 20775.

Radhakrishnan, H., Bennett, I.J., Stark, C.E.L. (2022). Higher-order multi-shell diffusion measures complement tensor metrics and volume in gray matter when predicting age and cognition. Neuroimage, 253, 119063.

Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J. (2022). Bridging patterns of neurocognitive aging across the older adult lifespan. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 135, 104594.

Merenstein, J.L., Petok, J.R., Bennett, I.J. (2022). Age group differences in learning-related activity reflect task stage, not learning stage. Behavioural Brain Research, 416, 113570.

Langley, J., Hussain, S., Huddleson, D.E., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2022). Impact of locus coeruleus and its projections on memory and aging. Brain Connectivity, 12, 223-233.

2021

Venkatesh, A., Daugherty, A.M., Bennett, I.J. (2021). Neuroimaging measures of iron and gliosis explain memory performance in aging. Human Brain Mapping, 42, 5761-5770.

Merenstein, J.L., Corrada, M.M., Kawas, C.H., Bennett, I.J. (2021). Age affects white matter microstructure and episodic memory across the older adult lifespan. Neurobiology of Aging, 106, 282-291.

Shokri-Kojori, E., Bennett, I.J., Tomeldon, Z.A., Krawczyk, D.C., Rypma, B. (2021). Estimates of brain age for gray matter and white matter in younger and older adults: Insights into human intelligence. Brain Research, 1763, 147431.

Franco, C., Petok, J.R., Langley, J., Hu, X., Bennett, I.J. (2021). Implicit associative learning relates to basal ganglia gray matter microstructure in young and older adults. Behavioural Brain Research, 397, 112950.

2020

Venkatesh, A., Stark, S.M., Stark, C.E.L., Bennett, I.J. (2020). Age- and memory-related differences in hippocampal gray matter integrity are better captured by NODDI compared to single-tensor diffusion imaging. Neurobiology of Aging, 96, 12-21.

Klippenstein, J.L., Stark, S.M., Stark, C.E.L., Bennett, I.J. (2020). Neural substrates of mnemonic discrimination: A whole-brain fMRI investigation. Brain and Behavior, 10, e01560.

Langley, J., Hussain, S., Flores, J.J., Bennett, I.J., Hu, X. (2020). Characterization of age-related microstructural changes in locus coeruleus and substantia nigra pars compacta. Neurobiology of Aging, 87, 89-97.

2019

Bennett, I.J., Stark, S.M., Stark, C.E.L. (2019). Recognition memory dysfunction relates to hippocampal subfield volume: A study of cognitively normal and mildly impaired older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 74 (7), 1132-1141.

2017

♥ Birth of my second son

Bennett, I.J., Greenia, D.E., Maillard, P., Sajjadi, S.A., DeCarli, C., Corrada, M.M., Kawas, C.H. (2017). Age-related white matter integrity differences in oldest-old without dementia. Neurobiology of Aging, 56, 108-114.

2016

♦ Start of the LANI Lab

Bennett, I.J., Stark, C.E.L. (2016). Mnemonic discrimination relates to perforant path integrity: An ultra-high resolution diffusion tensor imaging study. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 129, 107-112.

Houston, J.R., Bennett, I.J., Allen, P.A., Madden, D.J. (2016). Visual acuity does not moderate effect sizes of higher-level cognitive tasks. Experimental Aging Research, 42 (3), 221-263.

2015

Bennett, I.J., Huffman, D.J., Stark, C.E.L. (2015). Limbic tract integrity contributes to episodic memory performance across the lifespan. Cerebral Cortex, 25 (9), 2988-2999.

2014

♥ Birth of my first son

Bennett, I.J., Madden, D.J. (2014). Disconnected aging: Cerebral white matter integrity and age-related differences in cognition. Neuroscience, 12 (276), 187-205.

Hubbard, N.A., Hutchison, J.L., Motes. M.A., Kojori, E.S., Bennett, I.J., Brigante, R.M., Haley, R.W., Rypma, B. (2014). Central executive dysfunction and deferred prefrontal processing in veterans with Gulf War Illness. Clinical Psychological Sciences, 2 (3), 319-327.

2013

Bennett, I.J., Rypma, B. (2013). Advances in functional neuroanatomy: A review of combined DTI and fMRI studies in healthy younger and older adults. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37 (7), 1201-1210.

Bennett, I.J., Rivera, H.G., Rypma, B. (2013). Isolating age group differences in working memory load-related neural activity: Assessing the contribution of working memory capacity using a partial-trial fMRI method. Neuroimage, 72, 20-32.

2010 – 2012

Bennett, I.J., Motes, M.A., Rao, N.K., Rypma, B. (2012). White matter integrity predicts visual search performance in young and older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 33 (2), 433.e21-433.e31.

Madden, D.J., Bennett, I.J., Burzynska, A., Potter, G., Song, A.W. (2012). Diffusion tensor imaging of cerebral white matter integrity in cognitive aging. BBA – Molecular Basis of Disease, 1822 (3), 386-400.

Bennett, I.J., Madden, D.J., Vaidya, C.J., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2011). White matter integrity correlates of implicit sequence learning in healthy aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 32 (12), 2317.e1-2317.e12.

Bennett, I.J., Madden, D.J., Vaidya, C.J., Howard, D.V., Howard, J.H., Jr. (2010). Age-related differences in multiple measures of white matter integrity: A diffusion tensor imaging study of healthy aging. Human Brain Mapping, 31 (3), 378-390.

2007 – 2009

Madden, D.J., Bennett, I.J., Song, A.W. (2009). Cerebral white matter integrity and cognitive aging: Contributions from diffusion tensor imaging. Neuropsychology Review, 19 (4), 415-435.

Bennett, I.J., Barnes, K.A., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2009). An abbreviated implicit spatial context learning task that yields greater learning. Behavior Research Methods, 41 (2), 391-395.

Bennett, I.J., Romano, J.C., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2008). Two forms of implicit learning in young adult dyslexics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1145, 184-198.

Bennett, I.J., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2007). Age-related differences in implicit learning of subtle third-order sequential structure. Journal of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 62 (2), 98-103.

2004 – 2006

Bennett, I.J., Golob E.J., Parker, E.S., Starr A. (2006). Memory evaluation in mild cognitive impairment using recall and recognition tests. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 1408-1422.

Bennett, I.J., Golob E.J., Starr A. (2004). Age-related differences in auditory event-related potentials during a cued attention task. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115, 2602-2615.