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Papers

(The median citation count of Behavioral Neuroscience is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Supplemental Material for Therapeutic Effects of Metformin on Cocaine Conditioned Place Preference and Locomotion	76
Curcumin improves reversal learning in middle-aged rhesus monkeys.	74
Supplemental Material for Choice-Confirmation Bias and Gradual Perseveration in Human Reinforcement Learning	59
Supplemental Material for Effect of Striatal Dopamine on Pavlovian Bias. A Large [18F]-DOPA PET Study	37
Supplemental Material for Biological Sex Influences the Contribution of Sign-Tracking and Anxiety-Like Behavior Toward Remifentanil Self-Administration	28
Supplemental Material for Surprise-Induced Enhancements in the Associability of Pavlovian Cues Facilitate Learning Across Behavior Systems	24
Acute early life stress alters threat processing in adult rats.	22
Dopamine D1 receptor activation is involved in overcoming boundary conditions for destabilizing and updating object memories.	21
Supplemental Material for Indirect and Direct Cannabinoid Agonists Differentially Affect Mesolimbic Dopamine Release and Related Behaviors	19
Orbitofrontal cortex and learning predictions of state transitions.	19
On the resilience of reward cues attentional salience to reward devaluation, time, incentive learning, and contingency remapping.	18
Acute gut microbiome changes after traumatic brain injury are associated with chronic deficits in decision-making and impulsivity in male rats.	18
Defining an orbitofrontal compass: Functional and anatomical heterogeneity across anterior–posterior and medial–lateral axes.	16
The stressed orbitofrontal cortex.	15
Viewing orbitofrontal cortex contributions to decision-making through the lens of object recognition.	14
Dopamine D2R upregulation in ventral striatopallidal neurons does not affect Pavlovian or go/no-go learning.	14
Heterogeneous value coding in orbitofrontal populations.	14
The dorsal subiculum is not necessary for step-through inhibitory avoidance acquisition and consolidation in rats.	13
The relationship of age and hypertension with cognition and gray matter cerebral blood volume in a rhesus monkey model of human aging.	12
Assessment of distinct subcortical and cortical contributions to affect and approach/withdrawal behavior by means of resting-state functional connectivity approach.	12
The costs of coping: Different strategies to deal with social defeat stress might come with distinct immunologic, neuroplastic, and oxidative stress consequences in male Wistar rats.	11
Social buffering of plasma corticosterone and amygdala responses of young rats following exposure to periorbital shock: Implications for eyeblink conditioning development.	11
Chronic social defeat stress mouse model: Current view on its behavioral deficits and modifications.	11
Involvement of the ventral tegmental area but not periaqueductal gray matter in the paradoxical rewarding and aversive effects of morphine.	11
Pharmacological inhibition of BKCa channels induces a specific social deficit in adult C57BL6/J mice.	10

Serotonergic modulation of appetitive and ingestive behavior in crayfish.	10
Translational approaches to the neurobiological study of conditional discrimination and inhibition: Implications for psychiatric disease.	9
A novel model of obesity prediction: Neurobehaviors as targets for treatment.	9
Piecing together the orbitofrontal puzzle.	9
Call for a more balanced approach to understanding orbital frontal cortex function.	9
Individual differences in neurocognitive aging in outbred male and female long-evans rats.	9
In vivo microdialysis shows differential effects of prenatal protein malnutrition and stress on norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin levels in rat orbital frontal cortex.	9
Action selection is impaired by unilateral lesions in the rostral thalamic reticular nucleus.	8
Evaluation of baseline behavioral tests in ferrets.	8
Ketamine facilitates appetitive trace conditioning in mice: Further evidence for abnormal stimulus representation in schizophrenia model animals.	8
Pair housing does not alter incubation of craving, extinction, and reinstatement after heroin self-administration in female and male rats.	8
Renewal of conditioned fear in male and female rats.	8
Cortical taste processing evolves through benign taste exposures.	8
Electric barrier-induced voluntary abstinence reduces alcohol seeking in male, but not female, iP rats.	8
Neural population clocks: Encoding time in dynamic patterns of neural activity.	8
Supplemental Material for Ketamine Facilitates Appetitive Trace Conditioning in Mice: Further Evidence for Abnormal Stimulus Representation in Schizophrenia Model Animals	7
Predictions about reward outcomes in rhesus monkeys.	7
Supplemental Material for Cognitive and Arginine Metabolic Correlates of Temporal Dysfunction in the MIA Rat Model of Schizophrenia Risk	7
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	7
Dreadds: Use and application in behavioral neuroscience.	7
Supplemental Material for Prefrontal and Medial Temporal Interactions in Memory Functions in the Rhesus Monkey	7
Supplemental Material for Pupillometry Tracks Errors in Interval Timing	7
Beyond olfaction: Beneficial effects of olfactory training extend to aging-related cognitive decline.	7
Supplemental Material for Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ Receptor Activation in the Social Defeat Protocol	7
Supplemental Material for Distinct Competitive Impacts of Palatability of Taste Stimuli on Sampling Dynamics During a Preference Test	6
The ever-changing OFC landscape: What neural signals in OFC can tell us about inhibitory control.	6
Physical exercise and catecholamine reuptake inhibitors affect orienting behavior and social interaction in a rat model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.	6
Supplemental Material for Predictions About Reward Outcomes in Rhesus Monkeys	6
Supplemental Material for Impact of Supplementation With Omega-3 Fatty Acids After Maternal Dietary Deficiency on Adolescent Anxiety and Microglial Morphology	6
A reminder before extinction failed to prevent the return of conditioned threat responses irrespective of threat memory intensity in rats.	5
Reinforcement learning modeling reveals a reward-history-dependent strategy underlying reversal learning in squirrel monkeys.	5
The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain).	5
Adolescent female rats undergo full systems consolidation of an aversive memory, while males of the same age fail to discriminate contexts.	5
Differences in dopamine and opioid receptor ratios in the nucleus accumbens relate to physical contact and undirected song in pair-bonded zebra finches.	5
What are grid-like responses doing in the orbitofrontal cortex?	5
Is there a neuroscience-based, mechanistic rationale for transcranial direct current stimulation as an adjunct treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder?	5
Electrophysiological and hemodynamic mechanisms underlying load modulations in visuospatial working memory: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electroencephalogram (EEG) study.	4
Phasic inhibition of dopamine neurons is an instrumental punisher.	4
Mental representations mediate aversive learning in humans.	4
Effects of a cue associated with cocaine or food reinforcers on extinction and postextinction return of behavior.	4
The effects of time horizon and guided choices on explore–exploit decisions in rodents.	4
The rostral medial frontal cortex is crucial for engagement in consummatory behavior.	4
Repeated, moderate footshock reduces the propensity to relapse to alcohol seeking in female, but not male, iP rats.	4
Pupillometry tracks errors in interval timing.	4
Event-related brain potentials of temporal generalization: The P300 span marks the transition between time perception and time estimation.	4
Negative attributes of mixed-valence memories strengthen over long retention intervals and the degree of enhancement is predicted by individual differences in state anxiety.	4
Fear attenuation collaborations to optimize translation.	4
Sex and estrous cycle in memory for sequences of events in rats.	4
Autonomic arousal tracks outcome salience not valence in monkeys making social decisions.	4
Surprise-induced enhancements in the associability of Pavlovian cues facilitate learning across behavior systems.	4

Lrp8 knockout mice fed a selenium-replete diet display subtle deficits in their spatial learning and memory function.	4
Kamin blocking is disrupted by low-dose ketamine in mice: Further implications for aberrant stimulus processing in schizophrenia.	4
Supplemental Material for Proteome Analysis Indicates Participation of the Dorsal Hippocampal Formation in Fear-Motivated Memory in a Time-Dependent Manner	3
Supplemental Material for Retrieval and Savings of Contextual Fear Memories Across an Extended Retention Interval in Juvenile and Adult Male and Female Rats	3
Supplemental Material for Divergent Risky Decision-Making and Impulsivity Behaviors in Lewis Rat Substrains With Low Genetic Difference	3
Prospective representations in rat orbitofrontal ensembles.	3
Choice-confirmation bias and gradual perseveration in human reinforcement learning.	3
Endogenous hippocampal, not peripheral, estradiol is the key factor affecting the novel object recognition abilities of female rats.	3
Primary rewards and aversive outcomes have comparable effects on attentional bias.	3
Supplemental Material for Memory and Anxiety-Like Behavior of Rats in the Plus-Maze Discriminative Avoidance Task: Role of Serotonergic Transmission in the Basolateral Amygdala	3
Intrahippocampal blockade of nicotinic or muscarinic receptors fails to impair nonnavigational spatial memory in macaques.	3
Supplemental Material for Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Social Cognitive Predictors of Functional Outcomes in Individuals With Psychotic-Like Experiences	3
Effect of simple and complex enrichment added to standard-sized cages in behavioral, physiological, and neurological variables in female Swiss mice (Mus musculus).	3
The activity of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons during shock omission predicts safety learning.	3
Dopamine and noradrenaline modulation of goal-directed behavior in orbital and medial prefrontal cortex: Toward a division of labor?	3
Intracerebellar infusion of an mGluR1/5 agonist enhances eyeblink conditioning.	3
Supplemental Material for Can the Resting State Peak Alpha Frequency Explain the Relationship Between Temporal Resolution Power and Psychometric Intelligence?	3
Supplemental Material for Acute Gut Microbiome Changes After Traumatic Brain Injury Are Associated With Chronic Deficits in Decision-Making and Impulsivity in Male Rats	3
Optogenetic stimulation of the basolateral amygdala accelerates acquisition of object-context associations.	3
Satiety does not affect neuroaffective electrophysiological responses to food-related or emotional visual cues.	3
Regulation of maternal care by corticotropin-releasing factor receptors in the dorsal raphe nucleus in mice.	3
Morphine exposure during adolescence induces enduring social changes dependent on adolescent stage of exposure, sex, and social test.	3
Bridging across functional models: The OFC as a value-making neural network.	3
Modeling impaired insight after drug use in rodents.	2
Sex similarities and dopaminergic differences in interval timing.	2
Resource-rational psychopathology.	2
Cognitive and arginine metabolic correlates of temporal dysfunction in the MIA rat model of schizophrenia risk.	2
Hormonal contraceptives alter amphetamine place preference and responsivity in the intact female rat.	2
Supplemental Material for Trait-Level Somatic Anxiety Modulates Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Neural Synchrony to Naturalistic Stimuli	2
Translational research in punishment learning.	2
Are observed effects of movement simulated during motor imagery performance?	2
N-tert-butoxycarbonyl-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, an methylenedioxymethamphetamine derivative, exhibits rewarding and reinforcing effects by increasing dopamine levels.	2
Indirect and direct cannabinoid agonists differentially affect mesolimbic dopamine release and related behaviors.	2
Maternal repetitive hypoxia prior to mating confers epigenetic resilience to memory impairment in male progeny.	2
Retrograde amnesia of contextual fear conditioning: Evidence for retrosplenial cortex involvement in configural processing.	2
Progesterone treatment is not necessary for sexual experience-enhanced paced mating behavior in estradiol benzoate-primed female rats.	2
Divergent risky decision-making and impulsivity behaviors in Lewis rat substrains with low genetic difference.	2
Rhesus monkeys with damage to amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex perform well on novelty-based memory tasks.	2
Beyond reconsolidation: The need for a broad theoretical approach in clinical translations of research on retrieval-induced plasticity.	2
Chemogenetic activation of lateral habenula accelerates the extinction of the appetitive conditioned responses.	2
Impact of supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids after maternal dietary deficiency on adolescent anxiety and microglial morphology.	2
Contributions of the retrosplenial and posterior parietal cortices to cue-specific and contextual fear conditioning.	2
Amygdala central nucleus modulation of cerebellar learning in female rats.	1
Naturalistic housing condition promotes behavioral flexibility and increases resilience to stress in rats.	1
The orbital frontal cortex, task structure, and inference.	1
Supplemental Material for Effects of Repeated Social Stress on Risk Assessment Behaviors and Response to Diazepam in the Elevated Plus Maze in Adult Male Rats	1
Quantifying the inverted U: A meta-analysis of prefrontal dopamine, D1 receptors, and working memory.	1
A single dose of ketamine enhances early life stress-induced aggression with no effect on fear memory, anxiety-like behavior, or depression-like behavior in mice.	1
Can the resting state peak alpha frequency explain the relationship between temporal resolution power and psychometric intelligence?	1
Time to contrast models of timing: The structure of temporal memory.	1
Examination of onset trajectories and persistence of binge-like eating behavior in mice after intermittent palatable food exposure.	1
Less is more: Smaller hippocampal subfield volumes predict greater improvements in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms over 2 years.	1
The rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex as an arbitrator selecting between model-based and model-free learning systems.	1
How do real animals account for the passage of time during associative learning?	1
The orbitofrontal cortex in temporal cognition.	1
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	1
Effect of striatal dopamine on Pavlovian bias. A large [¹⁸F]-DOPA PET study.	1
Prelimbic cortex inactivation prevents ABA renewal based on stress state.	1
Chemogenetic inhibition of corticotropin-releasing factor neurons in the central amygdala alters binge-like ethanol consumption in male mice.	1
Delayed but not immediate effects of estrogen curtail gamma-aminobutyric acid-mediated feeding responses elicited from the nucleus accumbens shell.	1
Neuroscience research on human visual path integration: Topical review of the path completion paradigm and underlying role of the hippocampal formation from a strategic perspective.	1
Optogenetic inhibition of the caudal substantia nigra inflates behavioral responding to uncertain threat and safety.	1
Noradrenergic regulation of two-armed bandit performance.	1
Aversive outcomes impact human olfactory discrimination learning and generalization.	1
Retrieval and savings of contextual fear memories across an extended retention interval in juvenile and adult male and female rats.	1
Chronic cocaine causes age-dependent increases in risky choice in both males and females.	1
Macaques fail to develop habit responses during extended training on a reinforcer devaluation task.	1
The medial preoptic area and its projections to the ventral tegmental area and the periaqueductal gray are activated in response to social play behavior in juvenile rats.	1
Unlocking the reinforcement-learning circuits of the orbitofrontal cortex.	1
Hippocampal and amygdala volumes vary with residential proximity to toxicants at Birmingham, Alabama’s 35th Avenue Superfund site.	1
Variability in odor hedonic perception: A challenge for neurosensory and behavioral research.	1
Memory and anxiety-like behavior of rats in the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task: Role of serotonergic transmission in the basolateral amygdala.	1
Agmatine improves olfactory and cognitive deficits in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR): An animal model of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).	1