OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of exercise intensity on spatial memory performance and hippocampal synaptic function in SAMP8 mice	32
Editorial Board	31
Effects of intra-hippocampal corticosterone and sleep on consolidation of memories of aversive experience in rats	31
Lesion-induced sprouting promotes neurophysiological integration of septal and entorhinal inputs to granule cells in the dentate gyrus of rats	26
Glutamate receptor expression in the PL-BLA circuit is associated with susceptibility to showing the PTSD-like phenotype	23
Effects of early-life stress on probabilistic reversal learning and response perseverance in young adults	21
TrkB receptor antagonist ANA-12 impairs memory reconsolidation in novel object recognition task via regulation of hippocampal transcriptome	20
Autonomic central coupling during daytime sleep differs between older and younger people	19
Modafinil ameliorates the decline in pronunciation-related working memory caused by 36-h acute total sleep deprivation: An ERP study	19
Reductions in protein degradation in the retrosplenial cortex regulate contextual fear memory formation in a sex-independent manner	18
Disrupting dorsal hippocampus impairs category learning in rats	18
Sleep promotes illusory word compositions, a distinct form of false memory	17
The intersection of genome, epigenome and social experience in autism spectrum disorder: Exploring modifiable pathways for intervention	17
Differential effects of clonazepam on declarative memory formation and face recognition	17
Editorial Board	16
Electrophysiological evidence for context reinstatement effects on object recognition memory	15
Memory recall: New behavioral protocols for examining distinct forms of context specific recall in animals	15
Brain-Derived neurotrophic factor Val66met is associated with sex-specific impairment of cognitive flexibility under stress: A reversal learning search strategy analysis in a rat model	15
Pharmacological manipulations of the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum during fear extinction reveal opposing roles in fear renewal	15
Editorial Board	14
Role of nitric oxide on defensive behavior and long-term aversive learning induced by chemical stimulation of the dorsolateral periaqueductal gray matter	13
The function of REM and NREM sleep on memory distortion and consolidation	13
Female rats retain goal-directed planning of action sequences after acute stress despite changes in planning structure and action sequence execution	13
Synergistic impact of early-life stress and prenatal immune activation on spatial memory and oxidative metabolism in rat cortico-limbic networks	13
The neural representation of time distributed across multiple brain regions differs between implicit and explicit time demands	13

The effects of extinction and an explicitly unpaired treatment on the reinforcing properties of a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus	13
Memory impairments observed after a half night sleep restriction are not mediated by working memory, attention, or inhibitory control mechanisms	12
Mechanisms for punishment learning and decision-making: A special issue	12
Why is the Rescorla-Wagner model so influential?	12
Dynamic regulation of corticostriatal glutamatergic synaptic expression during reversal learning in male mice	12
Editorial Board	12
Sensitivity of associative priming to semantic relations: Insights from behavior and event-related potentials	12
Delayed emergence of EEG-based task-relevant representations	12
Sex differences and the influence of sex hormones on fear extinction and exposure therapy across the lifespan: A systematic review of studies in rodents and humans	11
Synergistic photoactivation of VTA-catecholaminergic and BLA-glutamatergic projections induces long-term potentiation in the insular cortex	11
Ensembles and engrams in mouse cortical and sub-thalamic brain regions supporting context and memory recall	11
Dorsomedial striatum, but not dorsolateral striatum, is necessary for rat category learning	11
The retrosplenial cortical role in delayed spatial alternation	10
Developmental changes in brain-wide fear memory networks	10
Long-term calorie restriction prevented memory impairment in middle-aged male mice and increased a marker of DNA oxidative stress in hippocampal dentate gyrus	10
Sex difference in the facilitation of fear learning by prior fear conditioning	9
Effects of predictive and incentive value manipulation on sign- and goal-tracking behavior	9
NMDA receptor blockade in the dorsolateral striatum impairs consolidation but not retrieval of habit memory	9
The role of post-learning EEG theta/beta ratio in long-term navigation performance	9
The protective role of µ- and δ-opioid receptor blockage on memory deficits after mild traumatic brain injury is dependent on preexisting high endogenous opioid tone	9
Nucleus accumbens shell activity reflects reward magnitude and training duration during Pavlovian and operant conditioning	9
Editorial Board	8
Consolidation of emotional memory during waking rest depends on trait anxiety	8
Response-independent outcome presentations dissociate stimulus and value based choice	8
How associations become behavior	8
Editorial Board	8
Prey populations with different predation histories show differences in behavioral and transcriptional effects under acute predation threat	8
Transcranial direct-current stimulation of core language areas facilitates novel word acquisition	8
Transcranial electrical stimulation for procedural learning and rehabilitation	8
Context-drug-associations and reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in male rats: Adolescent and adult time-dependent effects	8
Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images	8
Editorial Board	8
Investigations of forgetting in Caenorhabditis elegans	8
Perceived stress and renewal: The effects of long-term stress on the renewal effect	7
Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination	7
Manipulated overlapping reactivation of multiple memories promotes explicit gist abstraction	7
VTA multifaceted modulation of CA1 local circuits	7
Male spontaneously hypertensive rats demonstrate reduced goal-directed control and difficulty updating previous learning	6
Contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish: Influence of different shock frequencies, context, and pharmacological modulation on behavior	6
Cholinergic regulation of decision making under risk of punishment	6
Targeting the lateral hypothalamus with short hairpin RNAs reduces habitual behaviour following extended instrumental training in rats	6
Amygdala circuit transitions supporting developmentally-appropriate social behavior	6
Implicit and explicit reversal of trained oculomotor movements	6
Perceptions of factors that facilitate and impede learning among twice-exceptional college students with autism spectrum disorder	6
Frustrative nonreward: Detailed c-Fos expression patterns in the amygdala after consummatory successive negative contrast	6
Editorial Board	5
Isolation driven changes in Iba1-positive microglial morphology are associated with social recognition memory in adults and adolescents	5
Dissociable role of the basolateral complex of the amygdala in the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear following reproductive experience in female rats	5
Memory formation following appetitive conditioning is variably dependent on retinoid signaling	5
Neuro-immune interactions in memory	5

Editorial Board	5
Cortisol modulates hippocampus activation during semantic substitution in men	5
Stress effects on memory retrieval of aversive and appetitive instrumental counterconditioning in men	5
Neurocognitive predictors of food memory in healthy adults – A preregistered analysis	5
GluA1-containing AMPA receptors are necessary for sparse memory engram formation	5
Cortisol decreases activation in extinction related brain areas resulting in an impaired recall of context-dependent extinction memory	5
The orbitofrontal cortex: A goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors	5
Prelimbic cortex inactivation prevents ABA renewal based on satiety state	5
The effect of interference, offline sleep, and wake on spatial statistical learning	5
Effects of post-learning nap in the recognition memory for faces in habitual nappers	5
Editorial Board	5
Acute exercise after motor practice enhances generalized skill learning, corticospinal excitability and intermuscular coherence in older adults	5
Are the principles of Pavlovian conditioning in insects conserved with those in mammals?	5
Mental rotation, episodic memory, and executive control: Possible effects of biological sex and oral contraceptive use	5
The contextual fear conditioning consolidation depends on the functional interaction of the dorsal subiculum and basolateral amygdala in rats	5
Effects of a brief afternoon nap on declarative and procedural memory	5
Unconditioned perspectives: New vistas on learning from the Pavlovian society	5
Editorial Board	5