Topic · Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Most cited papers in Memory and Neural Mechanisms
What are the most cited papers in Memory and Neural Mechanisms?
The most cited paper in Memory and Neural Mechanisms is "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" (Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al., 2015), with 31,206 citations. Next come "Neuropathological stageing of Alzheimer-related changes" (16,612) and "An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function" (13,094).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 2,623 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al. · Nature | 24 Feb 2015 | 31,206 |
| 2 | Neuropathological stageing of Alzheimer-related changes Heiko Braak, Eva Braak · Acta Neuropathologica | Sep 1991 | 16,612 |
| 3 | An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function Earl K. Miller, Jonathan D. Cohen · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 2001 | 13,094 |
| 4 | A synaptic model of memory: long-term potentiation in the hippocampus T.V.P. Bliss, Graham L. Collingridge · Nature | 1993 | 11,655 |
| 5 | The Brain's Default Network Randy Lee Buckner, Jessica R. Andrews‐Hanna, Daniel L. Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Mar 2008 | 10,047 |
| 6 | A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward Wolfram Schultz, Peter Dayan, P. Read Montague · Science | 14 Mar 1997 | 9,810 |
| 7 | Emotion Circuits in the Brain Joseph E. LeDoux · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 2000 | 8,519 |
| 8 | The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction Thompson Gordon Robinson · Brain Research Reviews | Dec 1993 | 7,450 |
| 9 | The episodic buffer: a new component of working memory? Alan D. Baddeley · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Nov 2000 | 7,368 |
| 10 | Modification of seizure activity by electrical stimulation: II. Motor seizure Ronald J. Racine · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology | Mar 1972 | 7,266 |
| 11 | Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Matthew Botvinick, Todd Samuel Braver, Deanna M. Barch et al. · Psychological Review | 2001 | 7,222 |
| 12 | Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions Richard Morris, Paul Garrud, J. N. P. Rawlins et al. · Nature | Jun 1982 | 6,447 |
| 13 | The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat John M. O'Keefe, Jonathan O. Dostrovsky · Brain Research | Nov 1971 | 6,410 |
| 14 | Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex Antoine Bechara, António R. Damásio, Hanna Damásio et al. · Cognition | Apr 1994 | 6,192 |
| 15 | A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder Anke Ehlers, David M. Clark · Behaviour Research and Therapy | Apr 2000 | 6,137 |
| 16 | The Cholinergic Hypothesis of Geriatric Memory Dysfunction Raymond T. Bartus, Reginald L. Dean, Bernard Beer et al. · Science | 30 Jul 1982 | 5,576 |
| 17 | Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. James L. McClelland, Bruce L. McNaughton, Randall C. O’Reilly · Psychological Review | Jul 1995 | 5,439 |
| 18 | Memory and the hippocampus: A synthesis from findings with rats, monkeys, and humans. Larry R. Squire · Psychological Review | 1992 | 5,344 |
| 19 | Neurocircuitry of Addiction George F. Koob, Nora D. Volkow · Neuropsychopharmacology | 26 Aug 2009 | 5,334 |
| 20 | The precuneus: a review of its functional anatomy and behavioural correlates Andrea E. Cavanna, Michael Trimble · Brain | 6 Jan 2006 | 5,255 |
| 21 | Episodic Memory: From Mind to Brain Endel Tulving · Annual Review of Psychology | Feb 2002 | 5,027 |
| 22 | Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory Kirk I. Erickson, Michelle W. Voss, Ruchika Shaurya Prakash et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 31 Jan 2011 | 4,886 |
| 23 | Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's disease. David A. Gallo, Kameron R. Shahid, Meredith A. Olson et al. · Neuropsychology | Nov 2006 | 4,736 |
| 24 | Morris water maze: procedures for assessing spatial and related forms of learning and memory Charles V. Vorhees, Michael T. Williams · Nature Protocols | 27 Jul 2006 | 4,727 |
| 25 | Memory and consciousness. Endel Tulving · Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne | 1985 | 4,660 |
| 26 | Précis of The neuropsychology of anxiety: An enquiry into the functions of the septo-hippocampal system Jeffrey A. Gray · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Sep 1982 | 4,525 |
| 27 | The cognitive control of emotion Kevin N. Ochsner, John M. Gross · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 29 Apr 2005 | 4,501 |
| 28 | Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies Alan Baddeley · Annual Review of Psychology | Mar 2011 | 4,307 |
| 29 | Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden et al. · Nature | 19 Jun 2005 | 4,296 |
| 30 | Memory--a Century of Consolidation James Lafayette McGaugh · Science | 14 Jan 2000 | 4,275 |
| 31 | The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions Steven J. Luck, Edward K. Vogel · Nature | Nov 1997 | 4,246 |
| 32 | The Association Between Quantitative Measures of Dementia and of Senile Change in the Cerebral Grey Matter of Elderly Subjects G. Blessed, B. E. Tomlinson, Martin Roth · The British Journal of Psychiatry | Jul 1968 | 4,144 |
| 33 | The Reorienting System of the Human Brain: From Environment to Theory of Mind Maurizio Corbetta, Gaurav H. Patel, Gordon L. Shulman · Neuron | May 2008 | 4,043 |
| 34 | The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses Eric R. Kandel · Science | 2 Nov 2001 | 3,967 |
| 35 | The Nature of Recollection and Familiarity: A Review of 30 Years of Research Andrew P. Yonelinas · Journal of Memory and Language | Apr 2002 | 3,950 |
| 36 | Regulation of Synaptic Efficacy by Coincidence of Postsynaptic APs and EPSPs Henry Markram, Joachim H. R. Lübke, Michael Frotscher et al. · Science | 10 Jan 1997 | 3,941 |
| 37 | Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion Barry J. Everitt, Trevor William Robbins · Nature Neuroscience | 26 Oct 2005 | 3,854 |
| 38 | The memory function of sleep Susanne Diekelmann, Jan Born · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 4 Jan 2010 | 3,834 |
| 39 | The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging Suzanne N. Haber, Brian D Knutson · Neuropsychopharmacology | 7 Oct 2009 | 3,819 |
| 40 | A process dissociation framework: Separating automatic from intentional uses of memory Larry L. Jacoby · Journal of Memory and Language | Oct 1991 | 3,774 |
| 41 | Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an update Matthew Botvinick, Jonathan D. Cohen, Cameron S. Carter · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 3 Nov 2004 | 3,711 |
| 42 | Dissociating the Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Cognitive Control Angus W. MacDonald, Jonathan D. Cohen, Victor Andrew Stenger et al. · Science | 9 Jun 2000 | 3,710 |
| 43 | Imaging Cognition II: An Empirical Review of 275 PET and fMRI Studies Roberto E. Cabeza, Lars H Nyberg · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 2000 | 3,658 |
| 44 | Selective impairment of learning and blockade of long-term potentiation by an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, AP5 Richard Morris, Eric Anderson, GARY S. LYNCH et al. · Nature | Feb 1986 | 3,653 |
| 45 | Alzheimer's Disease and Senile Dementia: Loss of Neurons in the Basal Forebrain PJ Whitehouse, DL Price, R. G. Struble et al. · Science | 5 Mar 1982 | 3,640 |
| 46 | N‐back working memory paradigm: A meta‐analysis of normative functional neuroimaging studies Adrian Mark Owen, Kathryn M. McMillan, Angela R. Laird et al. · Human Brain Mapping | 21 Apr 2005 | 3,626 |
| 47 | Emotion, Decision Making and the Orbitofrontal Cortex Antoine Bechara · Cerebral Cortex | Mar 2000 | 3,612 |
| 48 | Cognitive reserve in ageing and Alzheimer's disease Yaakov Stern · The Lancet Neurology | 15 Oct 2012 | 3,589 |
| 49 | More hippocampal neurons in adult mice living in an enriched environment Gerd Kempermann, H. Georg Kuhn, Fred H. Gage · Nature | Apr 1997 | 3,538 |
| 50 | Functional Neuroanatomy of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Emotion Activation Studies in PET and fMRI K. Luan Phan, Tor Dessart Wager, Stephan Floyd Taylor et al. · NeuroImage | Jun 2002 | 3,533 |
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