OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Neural Circuits is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Tutor auditory memory for guiding sensorimotor learning in birdsong	63
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera	54
Zona incerta: from Parkinson's disease to addiction	52
Fleeing is believing: adaptive behavior under social threat as an inference process	49
Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons	46
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	38
Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation	30
State-dependent modulation of positive and negative affective valences by a parabrachial nucleus-to-ventral tegmental area pathway in mice	29
Effects of blood flow restriction on motoneurons synchronization	28
An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole	27
A neural tract tracing study on synaptic connections for cortical glutamatergic terminals and cervical spinal calretinin neurons in rats	26
Effective training procedure for a simultaneous bimanual movement task in head-fixed mice	26
A deep network-based model of hippocampal memory functions under normal and Alzheimer’s disease conditions	25
Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models	25
Editorial: Marine invertebrates: neurons, glia, and neurotransmitters	22
Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	22
The volatile anesthetic isoflurane differentially inhibits voltage-gated sodium channel currents between pyramidal and parvalbumin neurons in the prefrontal cortex	22
An inhibitory glycinergic projection from the cochlear nucleus to the lateral superior olive	22
Aberrant protein S-nitrosylation contributes to hyperexcitability-induced synaptic damage in Alzheimer’s disease: Mechanistic insights and potential therapies	22
Learning multisensory cue integration: A computational model of crossmodal synaptic plasticity enables reliability-based cue weighting by capturing stimulus statistics	22
Future research directions to identify risks and mitigation strategies for neurostructural, ocular, and behavioral changes induced by human spaceflight: A NASA-ESA expert group consensus report	21
Clarifying the neural circuit mechanisms of spontaneous social behavior in macaques	21
Stability and flexibility of odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb	20
How early olfactory experiences influence brain development in mice	20
The effects of chemogenetic targeting of serotonin-projecting pathways on L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia and psychosis in a bilateral rat model of Parkinson’s disease	19

Dissociated neuronal cultures as model systems for self-organized prediction	19
Auditory processing neurons influence song evaluation and strength of mate preference in female songbirds	19
Multisite rTMS combined with cognitive training modulates effective connectivity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	19
Long-term self-reported symptoms and psychophysical tests in COVID-19 subjects experiencing persistent olfactory dysfunction: a 4-year follow-up study	18
GABAergic signaling in alcohol use disorder and withdrawal: pathological involvement and therapeutic potential	18
Dorsal striatum c-Fos activity in perseverative ephrin-A2A5−/− mice and the cellular effect of low-intensity rTMS	17
Social learning and exploration–exploitation dilemma in decision-making	17
Editorial: Naturalistic neuroscience — Towards a full cycle from lab to field	17
Galanin analogs prevent mortality from seizure-induced respiratory arrest in mice	17
Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks	17
Cellular mechanisms underlying social regulation of the posterior tubercular nucleus in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	16
Synaptic connectivity amongst components of the locomotor central pattern generator	16
How perceptual learning rewires brain connectivity: lessons from the visual system in a top-down perspective	16
Improved motor imagery skills after repetitive passive somatosensory stimulation: a parallel-group, pre-registered study	16
The choroid plexus- cerebrospinal fluid axis as a lifespan regulator of neural stem cells and circuit plasticity	16
Neural mechanisms for turn-taking in duetting plain-tailed wrens	16
Vagus nerve stimulation as a predictive coding modulator that enhances feedforward over feedback transmission	15
Tunable dual-AAV sparse labeling of PV+ retinal ganglion cells enables single-neuron projection by fMOST	15
Respiration-coordinated attentional switch from feedforward to top-down informational flow directed by the basal forebrain: layer-specific blanket inhibition of pyramidal cells by neurogliaform cells	15
Dendritic synaptome of calcium-binding protein containing GABAergic interneurons in the mouse primary visual cortex	15
A specific olfactory bulb interneuron subtype Tpbg/5T4 generated at embryonic and neonatal stages	15
An operating principle of the cerebral cortex, and a cellular mechanism for attentional trial-and-error pattern learning and useful classification extraction	15
Task-dependent increases and decreases of BOLD signal in theory of mind brain regions during strategic social interaction	15
Neural activity responsiveness by maturation of inhibition underlying critical period plasticity	15
Ataxia-associated DNA repair genes protect the Drosophila mushroom body and locomotor function against glutamate signaling-associated damage	14
Selective inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission alters the emergent bursting dynamics of in vitro neural networks	14
Morphological evidence for neuronal connections between the olfactory neurogenic region and the striatum in adult rats	13
Axonal α7* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulate glutamatergic signaling and synaptic vesicle organization in ventral hippocampal projections	13
Are superficial neuromasts proprioceptors underlying fast copulatory behavior?	13
Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies	13
Agranular frontal cortical microcircuit underlying cognitive control in macaques	13
Activity-dependent dendrite patterning in the postnatal barrel cortex	12
Reliability of TMS measurements using conventional hand-hold method with different numbers of stimuli for tibialis anterior muscle in healthy adults	12
The ventral hippocampus is activated in olfactory but not auditory threat memory	12
Anesthetized animal experiments for neuroscience research	12
Assessment of a single trial impact on the amplitude of the averaged event related potentials	12
Early-life stress differentially affects CA3 synaptic inputs converging on apical and basal dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons	11
Beyond synaptic plasticity: a summary of a linear model of the cerebellar locomotor computation	11
Regulation of body weight and food intake by AGRP neurons during opioid dependence and abstinence in mice	11
Evidence of spatial periodic firing in the subiculum of mice	11
Interhemispheric neural characteristics of noxious mechano-nociceptive stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex	11
Research progress on the neural circuits mechanisms of anxiety	11
Neural basis for pheromone signal transduction in mice	11
Profiling neurotransmitter-evoked glial responses by RNA-sequencing analysis	11
Edonerpic maleate prevents epileptic seizure during recovery from brain damage by balancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs	11
Editorial: GABAergic circuits in health and disease	10
A neurocomputational analysis of visual bias on bimanual tactile spatial perception during a crossmodal exposure	10
Specific structural changes in Parkinson’s disease-related olfactory dysfunction compared to others forms of olfactory dysfunction	10
Spinal inhibitory interneurons: regulators of coordination during locomotor activity	10
Optimization of modularity during development to simplify walking control across multiple steps	9

Electrophysiologically distinct bed nucleus of the stria terminalis projections to the ventral tegmental area in mice	9
The corticofugal oscillatory modulation of the cochlear receptor during auditory and visual attention is preserved in tinnitus	9
The cerebellum engages multiple pre-motor pathways through a divergent-convergent architecture to shape whisker dynamics	9
Role of locomotor efference copy in vertebrate gaze stabilization	9
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	9
Hierarchical predictive coding in distributed pain circuits	9
Editorial: Unveiling the structure and function of brain microcircuits: Experiments, algorithms and simulations	9