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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of exercise intensity on spatial memory performance and hippocampal synaptic function in SAMP8 mice	50
Modafinil ameliorates the decline in pronunciation-related working memory caused by 36-h acute total sleep deprivation: An ERP study	31
Editorial Board	30
Effects of intra-hippocampal corticosterone and sleep on consolidation of memories of aversive experience in rats	30
Lesion-induced sprouting promotes neurophysiological integration of septal and entorhinal inputs to granule cells in the dentate gyrus of rats	26
Editors' note: Tribute to James L. McGaugh	22
Glutamate receptor expression in the PL-BLA circuit is associated with susceptibility to showing the PTSD-like phenotype	18
Autonomic central coupling during daytime sleep differs between older and younger people	17
Examining a role for the retrosplenial cortex in age-related memory impairment	17
Effects of early-life stress on probabilistic reversal learning and response perseverance in young adults	17
Dual projecting cells linking thalamic and cortical communication routes between the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus	16
Disrupting dorsal hippocampus impairs category learning in rats	16
Electrophysiological evidence for context reinstatement effects on object recognition memory	15
The intersection of genome, epigenome and social experience in autism spectrum disorder: Exploring modifiable pathways for intervention	15
Pharmacological manipulations of the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum during fear extinction reveal opposing roles in fear renewal	15
Differential effects of clonazepam on declarative memory formation and face recognition	15
Sleep promotes illusory word compositions, a distinct form of false memory	15
Editorial Board	14
Reductions in protein degradation in the retrosplenial cortex regulate contextual fear memory formation in a sex-independent manner	14
Memory recall: New behavioral protocols for examining distinct forms of context specific recall in animals	14
The effects of extinction and an explicitly unpaired treatment on the reinforcing properties of a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus	13
Editorial Board	13
Role of nitric oxide on defensive behavior and long-term aversive learning induced by chemical stimulation of the dorsolateral periaqueductal gray matter	13
The neural representation of time distributed across multiple brain regions differs between implicit and explicit time demands	12
Sensitized by a sea slug: Site-specific short-term and general long-term sensitization in Aplysia following Navanax attack	12

Why is the Rescorla-Wagner model so influential?	12
The function of REM and NREM sleep on memory distortion and consolidation	11
Synergistic impact of early-life stress and prenatal immune activation on spatial memory and oxidative metabolism in rat cortico-limbic networks	11
Long-term calorie restriction prevented memory impairment in middle-aged male mice and increased a marker of DNA oxidative stress in hippocampal dentate gyrus	11
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
Impairment of aversive episodic memories during Covid-19 pandemic: The impact of emotional context on memory processes	11
Memory impairments observed after a half night sleep restriction are not mediated by working memory, attention, or inhibitory control mechanisms	11
Dynamic regulation of corticostriatal glutamatergic synaptic expression during reversal learning in male mice	11
Female rats retain goal-directed planning of action sequences after acute stress despite changes in planning structure and action sequence execution	11
Sensitivity of associative priming to semantic relations: Insights from behavior and event-related potentials	11
Editorial Board	11
Mechanisms for punishment learning and decision-making: A special issue	10
The retrosplenial cortical role in delayed spatial alternation	10
NMDA receptor blockade in the dorsolateral striatum impairs consolidation but not retrieval of habit memory	10
Delayed emergence of EEG-based task-relevant representations	10
The association of basal cortisol levels with episodic memory in older adults is mediated by executive function	10
Dorsomedial striatum, but not dorsolateral striatum, is necessary for rat category learning	9
Sex difference in the facilitation of fear learning by prior fear conditioning	9
Synergistic photoactivation of VTA-catecholaminergic and BLA-glutamatergic projections induces long-term potentiation in the insular cortex	9
The role of post-learning EEG theta/beta ratio in long-term navigation performance	9
Developmental changes in brain-wide fear memory networks	9
Ensembles and engrams in mouse cortical and sub-thalamic brain regions supporting context and memory recall	9
Editorial Board	8
Consolidation of emotional memory during waking rest depends on trait anxiety	8
Editorial Board	8
Effects of predictive and incentive value manipulation on sign- and goal-tracking behavior	8
Editorial Board	8
Transcranial electrical stimulation for procedural learning and rehabilitation	8
Transcranial direct-current stimulation of core language areas facilitates novel word acquisition	8
Context-drug-associations and reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in male rats: Adolescent and adult time-dependent effects	8
Response-independent outcome presentations dissociate stimulus and value based choice	8
Prey populations with different predation histories show differences in behavioral and transcriptional effects under acute predation threat	8
Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images	8
Manipulated overlapping reactivation of multiple memories promotes explicit gist abstraction	7
Perceived stress and renewal: The effects of long-term stress on the renewal effect	7
How associations become behavior	7
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	7
Contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish: Influence of different shock frequencies, context, and pharmacological modulation on behavior	7
VTA multifaceted modulation of CA1 local circuits	7
Investigations of forgetting in Caenorhabditis elegans	7
Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination	7
Cholinergic regulation of decision making under risk of punishment	6
Memory formation following appetitive conditioning is variably dependent on retinoid signaling	6
The contextual fear conditioning consolidation depends on the functional interaction of the dorsal subiculum and basolateral amygdala in rats	6
Outcome-selective reinstatement is predominantly context-independent, and associated with c-Fos activation in the posterior dorsomedial striatum	6
Targeting the lateral hypothalamus with short hairpin RNAs reduces habitual behaviour following extended instrumental training in rats	6
The effect of interference, offline sleep, and wake on spatial statistical learning	6
Frustrative nonreward: Detailed c-Fos expression patterns in the amygdala after consummatory successive negative contrast	6
Male spontaneously hypertensive rats demonstrate reduced goal-directed control and difficulty updating previous learning	6
Hippocampal neuropeptide Y2 receptor blockade improves spatial memory retrieval and modulates limbic brain metabolism	5

Mental rotation, episodic memory, and executive control: Possible effects of biological sex and oral contraceptive use	5
The orbitofrontal cortex: A goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors	5
Neurocognitive predictors of food memory in healthy adults – A preregistered analysis	5
Cortisol decreases activation in extinction related brain areas resulting in an impaired recall of context-dependent extinction memory	5
Unconditioned perspectives: New vistas on learning from the Pavlovian society	5
Editorial Board	5
On the role of item encoding mechanisms in associative memory in young and older adults: A mass univariate ERP study	5
Interactions between the hippocampus and the auditory pathway	5
Effects of a brief afternoon nap on declarative and procedural memory	5
Implicit and explicit reversal of trained oculomotor movements	5
Are the principles of Pavlovian conditioning in insects conserved with those in mammals?	5
Editorial Board	5
The limbic memory circuit and the neural basis of contextual memory	5
Prelimbic cortex inactivation prevents ABA renewal based on satiety state	5
GluA1-containing AMPA receptors are necessary for sparse memory engram formation	5
Amygdala circuit transitions supporting developmentally-appropriate social behavior	5
Neuro-immune interactions in memory	5
Perceptions of factors that facilitate and impede learning among twice-exceptional college students with autism spectrum disorder	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
Effects of post-learning nap in the recognition memory for faces in habitual nappers	5
Isolation driven changes in Iba1-positive microglial morphology are associated with social recognition memory in adults and adolescents	5