OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editors' note: Tribute to James L. McGaugh	62
Editorial Board	46
Effects of exercise intensity on spatial memory performance and hippocampal synaptic function in SAMP8 mice	44
Autonomic central coupling during daytime sleep differs between older and younger people	34
Lesion-induced sprouting promotes neurophysiological integration of septal and entorhinal inputs to granule cells in the dentate gyrus of rats	29
Effects of intra-hippocampal corticosterone and sleep on consolidation of memories of aversive experience in rats	27
Glutamate receptor expression in the PL-BLA circuit is associated with susceptibility to showing the PTSD-like phenotype	27
Dual projecting cells linking thalamic and cortical communication routes between the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus	26
Modafinil ameliorates the decline in pronunciation-related working memory caused by 36-h acute total sleep deprivation: An ERP study	26
Effects of early-life stress on probabilistic reversal learning and response perseverance in young adults	25
Examining a role for the retrosplenial cortex in age-related memory impairment	23
Pharmacological manipulations of the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum during fear extinction reveal opposing roles in fear renewal	22
Editorial Board	22
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	22
Differential effects of clonazepam on declarative memory formation and face recognition	21
Memory recall: New behavioral protocols for examining distinct forms of context specific recall in animals	20
The intersection of genome, epigenome and social experience in autism spectrum disorder: Exploring modifiable pathways for intervention	18
Electrophysiological evidence for context reinstatement effects on object recognition memory	18
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	17
Disrupting dorsal hippocampus impairs category learning in rats	17
Synergistic impact of early-life stress and prenatal immune activation on spatial memory and oxidative metabolism in rat cortico-limbic networks	17
The neural representation of time distributed across multiple brain regions differs between implicit and explicit time demands	16
Impairment of aversive episodic memories during Covid-19 pandemic: The impact of emotional context on memory processes	16
Medial entorhinal cortex lesions produce delay-dependent disruptions in memory for elapsed time	16
The effects of extinction and an explicitly unpaired treatment on the reinforcing properties of a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus	16

Delaying feedback compensates for impaired reinforcement learning in developmental dyslexia	15
Why is the Rescorla-Wagner model so influential?	15
Role of nitric oxide on defensive behavior and long-term aversive learning induced by chemical stimulation of the dorsolateral periaqueductal gray matter	15
Sensitized by a sea slug: Site-specific short-term and general long-term sensitization in Aplysia following Navanax attack	15
Editorial Board	14
Female rats retain goal-directed planning of action sequences after acute stress despite changes in planning structure and action sequence execution	14
The association of basal cortisol levels with episodic memory in older adults is mediated by executive function	14
The function of REM and NREM sleep on memory distortion and consolidation	14
Sex difference in the facilitation of fear learning by prior fear conditioning	13
Synergistic photoactivation of VTA-catecholaminergic and BLA-glutamatergic projections induces long-term potentiation in the insular cortex	13
Memory impairments observed after a half night sleep restriction are not mediated by working memory, attention, or inhibitory control mechanisms	13
NMDA receptor blockade in the dorsolateral striatum impairs consolidation but not retrieval of habit memory	13
Dorsomedial striatum, but not dorsolateral striatum, is necessary for rat category learning	13
Effects of predictive and incentive value manipulation on sign- and goal-tracking behavior	13
Editorial Board	13
Sensitivity of associative priming to semantic relations: Insights from behavior and event-related potentials	13
The retrosplenial cortical role in delayed spatial alternation	12
Dynamic regulation of corticostriatal glutamatergic synaptic expression during reversal learning in male mice	12
The role of hippocampal mossy cells in novelty detection	12
General Pavlovian-instrumental transfer tests reveal selective inhibition of the response type – whether Pavlovian or instrumental – performed during extinction	12
Long-term calorie restriction prevented memory impairment in middle-aged male mice and increased a marker of DNA oxidative stress in hippocampal dentate gyrus	12
Delayed emergence of EEG-based task-relevant representations	12
Developmental changes in brain-wide fear memory networks	12
Editorial Board	11
Response-independent outcome presentations dissociate stimulus and value based choice	11
The role of post-learning EEG theta/beta ratio in long-term navigation performance	11
Editorial Board	11
Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination	10
Prey populations with different predation histories show differences in behavioral and transcriptional effects under acute predation threat	10
Editorial Board	10
Context-drug-associations and reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in male rats: Adolescent and adult time-dependent effects	10
Transcranial electrical stimulation for procedural learning and rehabilitation	10
Transcranial direct-current stimulation of core language areas facilitates novel word acquisition	10
Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images	10
Consolidation of emotional memory during waking rest depends on trait anxiety	10
Manipulated overlapping reactivation of multiple memories promotes explicit gist abstraction	9
Contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish: Influence of different shock frequencies, context, and pharmacological modulation on behavior	9
Beyond the hippocampus: The role of parahippocampal-prefrontal communication in context-modulated behavior	9
Withdrawal notice to “Artemisia absinthium improves spatial performance and neuronal injury induced by amyloid- beta in the CA1 hippocampal area of male Wistar rats” [Neurobiol. Learn. Memory 185 (202	9
Perceived stress and renewal: The effects of long-term stress on the renewal effect	9
Investigations of forgetting in Caenorhabditis elegans	9
How associations become behavior	9
VTA multifaceted modulation of CA1 local circuits	9
Outcome-selective reinstatement is predominantly context-independent, and associated with c-Fos activation in the posterior dorsomedial striatum	9
The contextual fear conditioning consolidation depends on the functional interaction of the dorsal subiculum and basolateral amygdala in rats	8
Cholinergic regulation of decision making under risk of punishment	8
Stability of neural encoding moderates the contribution of sleep and repeated testing to memory consolidation	8
Interactions between the hippocampus and the auditory pathway	8
Amygdala circuit transitions supporting developmentally-appropriate social behavior	8
Perceptions of factors that facilitate and impede learning among twice-exceptional college students with autism spectrum disorder	8

Effects of a brief afternoon nap on declarative and procedural memory	8
Acquisition and extinction of second-order context conditioned fear: Role of the amygdala	8
Memory formation following appetitive conditioning is variably dependent on retinoid signaling	8
Hippocampal neuropeptide Y2 receptor blockade improves spatial memory retrieval and modulates limbic brain metabolism	8
Ventral hippocampus mediates the context-dependence of two-way signaled avoidance in male rats	8
The orbitofrontal cortex: A goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors	8
The effect of interference, offline sleep, and wake on spatial statistical learning	8
Frustrative nonreward: Detailed c-Fos expression patterns in the amygdala after consummatory successive negative contrast	8
Targeting the lateral hypothalamus with short hairpin RNAs reduces habitual behaviour following extended instrumental training in rats	8
Regulation of learned fear expression through the MgN-amygdala pathway	7
Improving cognitive functioning in major depressive disorder with psychedelics: A dimensional approach	7
Cortisol decreases activation in extinction related brain areas resulting in an impaired recall of context-dependent extinction memory	7
Dissociable role of the basolateral complex of the amygdala in the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear following reproductive experience in female rats	7
Unconditioned perspectives: New vistas on learning from the Pavlovian society	7
Mental rotation, episodic memory, and executive control: Possible effects of biological sex and oral contraceptive use	7
Neurocognitive predictors of food memory in healthy adults – A preregistered analysis	7
Prioritization of social information by the basolateral amygdala in rats	7
GluA1-containing AMPA receptors are necessary for sparse memory engram formation	7
Prelimbic cortex inactivation prevents ABA renewal based on satiety state	7