OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is 6. 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
Dopaminergic medication increases motivation to exert cognitive control by reducing subjective effort costs in Parkinson’s patients	46
Male rats choose higher doses of nicotine in anticipation of a future non-drug period	43
Frustrative nonreward: Detailed c-Fos expression patterns in the amygdala after consummatory successive negative contrast	40
Effects of a brief afternoon nap on declarative and procedural memory	35
The effect of fasting on human memory consolidation	35
Lesion-induced sprouting promotes neurophysiological integration of septal and entorhinal inputs to granule cells in the dentate gyrus of rats	32
Effects of intra-hippocampal corticosterone and sleep on consolidation of memories of aversive experience in rats	28
Perceptions of factors that facilitate and impede learning among twice-exceptional college students with autism spectrum disorder	27
Nicotine-mediated activation of α2 nAChR-expressing OLM cells in developing mouse brains disrupts OLM cell-mediated control of LTP in adolescence	26
CCR5 regulates Aβ1-42-induced learning and memory deficits in mice	26
Punishments and rewards both modestly impair visuomotor memory retention	25
Cholinergic regulation of decision making under risk of punishment	24
Predictive learning by a burst-dependent learning rule	23
Targeting the lateral hypothalamus with short hairpin RNAs reduces habitual behaviour following extended instrumental training in rats	22
Autonomic central coupling during daytime sleep differs between older and younger people	22
The dorsal hippocampus’ role in context-based timing in rodents	22
Long-term memory formation for voices during sleep in three-month-old infants	20
The DA-antagonist Tiapride affects context-related extinction learning in a predictive learning task, but not initial forming of associations, or renewal	19
Ventral hippocampus mediates the context-dependence of two-way signaled avoidance in male rats	19
Dual projecting cells linking thalamic and cortical communication routes between the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus	18
New functions of the rodent prelimbic and infralimbic cortex in instrumental behavior	17
Effects of exercise intensity on spatial memory performance and hippocampal synaptic function in SAMP8 mice	16
The effect of interference, offline sleep, and wake on spatial statistical learning	16
Increased hippocampal CREB phosphorylation after retrieval of remote contextual fear memories in Carioca high-conditioned freezing rats	16
Acute stress persistently alters instrumental motivation without affecting appetitive Pavlovian conditioning, extinction, or contextual renewal	16

Motor-related oscillations reveal the involvement of sensorimotor processes during recognition memory	15
Ghrelin receptor antagonism and satiety attenuate Pavlovian-instrumental transfer	15
Editors' note: Tribute to James L. McGaugh	14
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Recruitment of neurons in basolateral amygdala after intense training produces a stronger memory trace	14
Stability of neural encoding moderates the contribution of sleep and repeated testing to memory consolidation	14
Effects of early-life stress on probabilistic reversal learning and response perseverance in young adults	14
Central amygdala contributes to stimulus facilitation and pre-stimulus vigilance during cerebellar learning	14
Acquisition and extinction of second-order context conditioned fear: Role of the amygdala	14
Developmental milestones as early indicators of twice-exceptionality	14
Editorial Board	13
Neurocognitive mechanisms of collaborative recall	13
Modafinil ameliorates the decline in pronunciation-related working memory caused by 36-h acute total sleep deprivation: An ERP study	12
Examining a role for the retrosplenial cortex in age-related memory impairment	12
Disturbance of REM sleep exacerbates microglial activation in APP/PS1 mice	12
The multiple faces of footshock punishment in animal research on addiction	12
Memory decay distinguishes subtypes of gist	12
Twice-exceptionality: new perspectives for research	12
The contextual fear conditioning consolidation depends on the functional interaction of the dorsal subiculum and basolateral amygdala in rats	12
Editorial Board	12
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Developmental changes in functional connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and amygdala following fear extinction	12
Sensitivity of late ERP old/new effects in source memory to self-referential encoding focus and stimulus emotionality	11
Hippocampal neuropeptide Y2 receptor blockade improves spatial memory retrieval and modulates limbic brain metabolism	11
Editorial Board	11
Optogenetic inhibition of either the anterior or posterior retrosplenial cortex disrupts retrieval of a trace, but not delay, fear memory	11
Transcranial alternating current stimulation at theta frequency to left parietal cortex impairs associative, but not perceptual, memory encoding	11
Sleep to remember, sleep to forget: Rapid eye movement sleep can have inverse effects on recall and generalization of fear memories	10
How predictability and individual alpha frequency shape memory: Insights from an event-related potential investigation	10
Environmental enrichment improves cognitive function, learning, memory and anxiety-related behaviours in rodent models of dementia: Implications for future study	10
Corrigendum to “Inhibition of late mRNA synthesis in the hippocampus impairs consolidation and reconsolidation of spatial memory in male rats” [Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 195 (2022) 107687]	10
Emotion regulation during encoding reduces negative and enhances neutral mnemonic discrimination in individuals with depressive symptoms	10
Amygdala circuit transitions supporting developmentally-appropriate social behavior	10
Corrigendum to “The orbitofrontal cortex: A goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors” [Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 203 (2023) 107793]	10
The role of sleep for episodic memory consolidation: Stabilizing or rescuing?	10
The orbitofrontal cortex: A goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors	10
Positive and neutral updating reconsolidate aversive episodic memories via different routes	9
Conditioned inhibition of amphetamine sensitization	9
From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures	9
Interactions between the hippocampus and the auditory pathway	9
Effect of chronic sleep deprivation and sleep recovery on hippocampal CA3 neurons, spatial memory and anxiety-like behavior in rats	9
Synergistic effect between quinpirole and L-NAME as well as sulpiride and L-arginine on the modulation of anxiety and memory processes in the 6-OHDA mouse model of Parkinson's disease: An isobologram	9
Outcome-selective reinstatement is predominantly context-independent, and associated with c-Fos activation in the posterior dorsomedial striatum	9
Editorial Board	8
Cross state-dependent memory retrieval between cannabinoid CB1 and serotonergic 5-HT1A receptor agonists in the mouse dorsal hippocampus	8
Role of noradrenergic arousal for fear extinction processes in rodents and humans	8
Cortisol decreases activation in extinction related brain areas resulting in an impaired recall of context-dependent extinction memory	8
Editorial Board	8
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A bio-inspired reinforcement learning model that accounts for fast adaptation after punishment	8

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Acute pre-learning stress selectively impairs hippocampus-dependent fear memory consolidation: Behavioral and molecular evidence	8
GluA1-containing AMPA receptors are necessary for sparse memory engram formation	8
Differential effects of clonazepam on declarative memory formation and face recognition	8
Appetitive and aversive sensory preconditioning in rats is impaired by disruption of the postrhinal cortex	7
Editorial Board	7
Disrupting dorsal hippocampus impairs category learning in rats	7
Pharmacological manipulations of the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum during fear extinction reveal opposing roles in fear renewal	7
NMDA receptor-mediated processing in inferior frontal gyrus facilitates acquisition and extinction learning and strengthens renewal	7
Novelty processing depends on medial temporal lobe structures	7
5-HT7 receptor activation rescues impaired synaptic plasticity in an autistic-like rat model induced by prenatal VPA exposure	7
Hypersensitivity of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit (CHRNA2 ) in female adolescent mice produces deficits in nicotine-induced facilitation of hippocampal-dependent learning and memory	7
Prelimbic cortex inactivation prevents ABA renewal based on satiety state	7
Neurobiological insights into twice-exceptionality: Circuits, cells, and molecules	7
Editorial Board	7
Memory recall: New behavioral protocols for examining distinct forms of context specific recall in animals	7
Sexually dimorphic muscarinic acetylcholine receptor modulation of contextual fear learning in the dentate gyrus	7
Sleep-learning impairs subsequent awake-learning	6
Regulation of learned fear expression through the MgN-amygdala pathway	6
Dissociable role of the basolateral complex of the amygdala in the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear following reproductive experience in female rats	6
No benefit of auditory closed-loop stimulation on memory for semantically-incongruent associations	6
Electrophysiological evidence for context reinstatement effects on object recognition memory	6
Mental rotation, episodic memory, and executive control: Possible effects of biological sex and oral contraceptive use	6
The intersection of genome, epigenome and social experience in autism spectrum disorder: Exploring modifiable pathways for intervention	6
The weekend warrior effect: Consistent intermittent exercise induces persistent cognitive benefits	6
Effects of maternal separation on punishment-driven risky decision making in adolescence and adulthood	6
Elevated fear responses to threatening cues in rats with early life stress is associated with greater excitability and loss of gamma oscillations in ventral-medial prefrontal cortex	6
The effects of acute Cannabis smoke or Δ9-THC injections on the trial-unique, nonmatching-to-location and five-choice serial reaction time tasks in male Long-Evans rats	6
Neurocognitive predictors of food memory in healthy adults – A preregistered analysis	6
Acute vagus nerve stimulation enhances reversal learning in rats	6
Proteome-wide analysis of the hippocampus in adolescent male mice with learning and memory impairment caused by chronic ethanol exposure	6
Epinephrine modulates memory of latent learning in an inhibitory avoidance task	6
Chromatin accessibility in neuropsychiatric disorders	6
Glucocorticoid effects on working memory impairment require l-type calcium channel activity within prefrontal cortex	6
A possible mechanism of neural read-out from a molecular engram	6