Marcus Benna

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Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
School	Vc-academic Affairs
Address	9500 Gilman Drive # La Jolla CA 92093
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Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks. Nature. 2025 Aug; 644(8078):993-1001. Ji-An L, Benna MK, Mattar MG. PMID: 40604278; PMCID: PMC12390849.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals
Social Exclusion Amplifies Behavioral Responses to Physical Pain via Insular Neuromodulation. Res Sq. 2025 Jun 03. Tye K, Jia C, Tran A, Aloboudi F, Say E, Thao N, Lee C, Batra K, Nguyen A, Bal A, Delahanty J, Chan M, Keyes L, Patel R, Wichmann R, Taschbach F, Li Y, Benna M, Pereira T, Li H, Nono N. PMID: 40502764; PMCID: PMC12155228.

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Language Models Are Capable of Metacognitive Monitoring and Control of Their Internal Activations. ArXiv. 2025 May 19. Ji-An L, Mattar MG, Xiong HD, Benna MK, Wilson RC. PMID: 40470478; PMCID: PMC12136483.

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Social Exclusion Amplifies Behavioral Responses to Physical Pain via Insular Neuromodulation. bioRxiv. 2025 May 13. Jia C, Tran A, Aloboudi F, Say E, Thao N, Lee CR, Batra K, Nguyen A, Bal A, Nono NN, Delahanty J, Chan MG, Keyes LR, Patel RR, Wichmann R, Taschbach F, Li Y, Benna M, Pereira TD, Li H, Tye K. PMID: 40463290; PMCID: PMC12132339.

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Parallel synapses with transmission nonlinearities enhance neuronal classification capacity. PLoS Comput Biol. 2025 May; 21(5):e1012285. Song Y, Benna MK. PMID: 40344022; PMCID: PMC12063901.

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Com Computational Biology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex. Nature. 2025 May 07. Ramot A, Taschbach FH, Yang YC, Hu Y, Chen Q, Morales BC, Wang XC, Wu A, Tye KM, Benna MK, Komiyama T. PMID: 40335698.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex. Nature. 2025 Jul; 643(8072):725-734. Ramot A, Taschbach FH, Yang YC, Hu Y, Chen Q, Morales BC, Wang XC, Wu A, Tye KM, Benna MK, Komiyama T. PMID: 40335698.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Parallel Synapses with Transmission Nonlinearities Enhance Neuronal Classification Capacity. bioRxiv. 2024 Jul 04. Song Y, Benna MK. PMID: 39005326; PMCID: PMC11244940.

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Deep Learning without Weight Symmetry. ArXiv. 2024 May 31. Ji-An L, Benna MK. PMID: 38855537; PMCID: PMC11160852.

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Temporal multiplexing of perception and memory codes in IT cortex. Nature. 2024 May; 629(8013):861-868. She L, Benna MK, Shi Y, Fusi S, Tsao DY. PMID: 38750353; PMCID: PMC11111405.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Mixed selectivity: Cellular computations for complexity. Neuron. 2024 Jul 17; 112(14):2289-2303. Tye KM, Miller EK, Taschbach FH, Benna MK, Rigotti M, Fusi S. PMID: 38729151; PMCID: PMC11257803.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Social isolation recruits amygdala-cortical circuitry to escalate alcohol drinking. Res Sq. 2024 Mar 21. Patel RR, Patarino M, Kim K, Pamintuan R, Taschbach FH, Li H, Lee CR, van Hoek A, Castro R, Cazares C, Miranda RL, Jia C, Delahanty J, Batra K, Keyes LR, Libster A, Wichmann R, Pereira TD, Benna MK, Tye KM. PMID: 38562728; PMCID: PMC10984017.

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Face familiarity detection with complex synapses. iScience. 2023 Jan 20; 26(1):105856. Ji-An L, Stefanini F, Benna MK, Fusi S. PMID: 36636347; PMCID: PMC9829748.

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The implications of categorical and category-free mixed selectivity on representational geometries. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2022 12; 77:102644. Kaufman MT, Benna MK, Rigotti M, Stefanini F, Fusi S, Churchland AK. PMID: 36332415.

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Bio Biology Neu Neurology
Translation:Cells
Place cells may simply be memory cells: Memory compression leads to spatial tuning and history dependence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 12 21; 118(51). Benna MK, Fusi S. PMID: 34916282; PMCID: PMC8713479.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals
In Situ Measurements of Thermal Ion Temperature in the Martian Ionosphere. J Geophys Res Space Phys. 2021 Dec; 126(12):e2021JA029531. Hanley KG, McFadden JP, Mitchell DL, Fowler CM, Stone SW, Yelle RV, Mayyasi M, Ergun RE, Andersson L, Benna M, Elrod MK, Jakosky BM. PMID: 35865356; PMCID: PMC9286691.

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The Geometry of Abstraction in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex. Cell. 2020 11 12; 183(4):954-967.e21. Bernardi S, Benna MK, Rigotti M, Munuera J, Fusi S, Salzman CD. PMID: 33058757; PMCID: PMC8451959.

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Cel Cell Biology
Translation:Animals Cells
Mars's Dayside Upper Ionospheric Composition Is Affected by Magnetic Field Conditions. J Geophys Res Space Phys. 2019 Apr; 124(4):3100-3109. Withers P, Flynn CL, Vogt MF, Mayyasi M, Mahaffy P, Benna M, Elrod M, McFadden JP, Dunn P, Liu G, Andersson L, England S. PMID: 32874820; PMCID: PMC7458070.

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Computational principles of synaptic memory consolidation. Nat Neurosci. 2016 12; 19(12):1697-1706. Benna MK, Fusi S. PMID: 27694992.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals Cells
MAVEN observations of the response of Mars to an interplanetary coronal mass ejection. Science. 2015 Nov 06; 350(6261):aad0210. Jakosky BM, Grebowsky JM, Luhmann JG, Connerney J, Eparvier F, Ergun R, Halekas J, Larson D, Mahaffy P, McFadden J, Mitchell DF, Schneider N, Zurek R, Bougher S, Brain D, Ma YJ, Mazelle C, Andersson L, Andrews D, Baird D, Baker D, Bell JM, Benna M, Chaffin M, Chamberlin P, Chaufray YY, Clarke J, Collinson G, Combi M, Crary F, Cravens T, Crismani M, Curry S, Curtis D, Deighan J, Delory G, Dewey R, DiBraccio G, Dong C, Dong Y, Dunn P, Elrod M, England S, Eriksson A, Espley J, Evans S, Fang X, Fillingim M, Fortier K, Fowler CM, Fox J, Gröller H, Guzewich S, Hara T, Harada Y, Holsclaw G, Jain SK, Jolitz R, Leblanc F, Lee CO, Lee Y, Lefevre F, Lillis R, Livi R, Lo D, Mayyasi M, McClintock W, McEnulty T, Modolo R, Montmessin F, Morooka M, Nagy A, Olsen K, Peterson W, Rahmati A, Ruhunusiri S, Russell CT, Sakai S, Sauvaud JA, Seki K, Steckiewicz M, Stevens M, Stewart AI, Stiepen A, Stone S, Tenishev V, Thiemann E, Tolson R, Toublanc D, Vogt M, Weber T, Withers P, Woods T, Yelle R. PMID: 26542576.

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Sci Science
Early MAVEN Deep Dip campaign reveals thermosphere and ionosphere variability. Science. 2015 Nov 06; 350(6261):aad0459. Bougher S, Jakosky B, Halekas J, Grebowsky J, Luhmann J, Mahaffy P, Connerney J, Eparvier F, Ergun R, Larson D, McFadden J, Mitchell D, Schneider N, Zurek R, Mazelle C, Andersson L, Andrews D, Baird D, Baker DN, Bell JM, Benna M, Brain D, Chaffin M, Chamberlin P, Chaufray JY, Clarke J, Collinson G, Combi M, Crary F, Cravens T, Crismani M, Curry S, Curtis D, Deighan J, Delory G, Dewey R, DiBraccio G, Dong C, Dong Y, Dunn P, Elrod M, England S, Eriksson A, Espley J, Evans S, Fang X, Fillingim M, Fortier K, Fowler CM, Fox J, Gröller H, Guzewich S, Hara T, Harada Y, Holsclaw G, Jain SK, Jolitz R, Leblanc F, Lee CO, Lee Y, Lefevre F, Lillis R, Livi R, Lo D, Ma Y, Mayyasi M, McClintock W, McEnulty T, Modolo R, Montmessin F, Morooka M, Nagy A, Olsen K, Peterson W, Rahmati A, Ruhunusiri S, Russell CT, Sakai S, Sauvaud JA, Seki K, Steckiewicz M, Stevens M, Stewart AI, Stiepen A, Stone S, Tenishev V, Thiemann E, Tolson R, Toublanc D, Vogt M, Weber T, Withers P, Woods T, Yelle R. PMID: 26542579.

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Sci Science