OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Neural Circuits is 10. 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
Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons	89
Tutor auditory memory for guiding sensorimotor learning in birdsong	69
Discriminating Sleep From Freezing With Cortical Spindle Oscillations	51
Zona incerta: from Parkinson's disease to addiction	49
Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation	40
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera	39
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	38
Toward Naturalistic Neuroscience of Navigation: Opportunities in Coral Reef Fish	38
Advancements in the Quest to Map, Monitor, and Manipulate Neural Circuitry	34
Learning multisensory cue integration: A computational model of crossmodal synaptic plasticity enables reliability-based cue weighting by capturing stimulus statistics	33
Effects of blood flow restriction on motoneurons synchronization	33
A neural tract tracing study on synaptic connections for cortical glutamatergic terminals and cervical spinal calretinin neurons in rats	33
Effective training procedure for a simultaneous bimanual movement task in head-fixed mice	30
Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models	30
State-dependent modulation of positive and negative affective valences by a parabrachial nucleus-to-ventral tegmental area pathway in mice	30
A deep network-based model of hippocampal memory functions under normal and Alzheimer’s disease conditions	30
Editorial: Marine invertebrates: neurons, glia, and neurotransmitters	29
The volatile anesthetic isoflurane differentially inhibits voltage-gated sodium channel currents between pyramidal and parvalbumin neurons in the prefrontal cortex	28
Aberrant protein S-nitrosylation contributes to hyperexcitability-induced synaptic damage in Alzheimer’s disease: Mechanistic insights and potential therapies	27
Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex	26
Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response	26
An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole	24
Auditory processing neurons influence song evaluation and strength of mate preference in female songbirds	24
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	23
Long-term self-reported symptoms and psychophysical tests in COVID-19 subjects experiencing persistent olfactory dysfunction: a 4-year follow-up study	23

How early olfactory experiences influence brain development in mice	23
Stability and flexibility of odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb	23
Hippocampal Connectivity of the Presubiculum in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)	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	22
An inhibitory glycinergic projection from the cochlear nucleus to the lateral superior olive	21
Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	21
Multisite rTMS combined with cognitive training modulates effective connectivity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	21
Binaural Processing Deficits Due to Synaptopathy and Myelin Defects	20
GABAergic signaling in alcohol use disorder and withdrawal: pathological involvement and therapeutic potential	19
Strategies for Targeting Neural Circuits: How to Manipulate Neurons Using Virus Vehicles	19
The Role of Inhibitory Interneurons in Circuit Assembly and Refinement Across Sensory Cortices	19
Dissociated neuronal cultures as model systems for self-organized prediction	19
Neural mechanisms for turn-taking in duetting plain-tailed wrens	18
Galanin analogs prevent mortality from seizure-induced respiratory arrest in mice	18
Dorsal striatum c-Fos activity in perseverative ephrin-A2A5−/− mice and the cellular effect of low-intensity rTMS	18
Editorial: Naturalistic neuroscience — Towards a full cycle from lab to field	18
Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks	18
How perceptual learning rewires brain connectivity: lessons from the visual system in a top-down perspective	18
Intersegmental Interactions Give Rise to a Global Network	18
What and Where: Location-Dependent Feature Sensitivity as a Canonical Organizing Principle of the Visual System	17
Improved motor imagery skills after repetitive passive somatosensory stimulation: a parallel-group, pre-registered study	17
From Synapses to Circuits, Astrocytes Regulate Behavior	17
Synaptic connectivity amongst components of the locomotor central pattern generator	16
Origin of Multisynaptic Corticospinal Pathway to Forelimb Segments in Macaques and Its Reorganization After Spinal Cord Injury	16
Vagus nerve stimulation as a predictive coding modulator that enhances feedforward over feedback transmission	16
Editorial: Cortical-Subcortical Loops in Sensory Processing	16
A specific olfactory bulb interneuron subtype Tpbg/5T4 generated at embryonic and neonatal stages	16
Neural activity responsiveness by maturation of inhibition underlying critical period plasticity	16
An operating principle of the cerebral cortex, and a cellular mechanism for attentional trial-and-error pattern learning and useful classification extraction	15
Non-Cell-Autonomous Factors Implicated in Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation and Critical Periods	15
Müller Glia in Retinal Development: From Specification to Circuit Integration	15
Stimulus-Selective Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex: Progress and Puzzles	15
Comparison of Resting-State Functional MRI Methods for Characterizing Brain Dynamics	14
Ataxia-associated DNA repair genes protect the Drosophila mushroom body and locomotor function against glutamate signaling-associated damage	14
Are superficial neuromasts proprioceptors underlying fast copulatory behavior?	14
Selective inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission alters the emergent bursting dynamics of in vitro neural networks	14
Axonal α7* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulate glutamatergic signaling and synaptic vesicle organization in ventral hippocampal projections	14
Agranular frontal cortical microcircuit underlying cognitive control in macaques	14
Dendritic synaptome of calcium-binding protein containing GABAergic interneurons in the mouse primary visual cortex	14
Rhythmic Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus	14
Assessment of a single trial impact on the amplitude of the averaged event related potentials	13
Anatomical and Functional Connectivity at the Dendrodendritic Reciprocal Mitral Cell–Granule Cell Synapse: Impact on Recurrent and Lateral Inhibition	13
Research progress on the neural circuits mechanisms of anxiety	13
Morphological evidence for neuronal connections between the olfactory neurogenic region and the striatum in adult rats	13
The ventral hippocampus is activated in olfactory but not auditory threat memory	13
Anesthetized animal experiments for neuroscience research	13
Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies	13
Activity-dependent dendrite patterning in the postnatal barrel cortex	13
Using Hebbian-Type Stimulation to Rescue Arm Function After Stroke: Study Protocol for a Randomized Clinical Trial	13
Interhemispheric neural characteristics of noxious mechano-nociceptive stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex	12

Neural basis for pheromone signal transduction in mice	12
Edonerpic maleate prevents epileptic seizure during recovery from brain damage by balancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs	12
Reliability of TMS measurements using conventional hand-hold method with different numbers of stimuli for tibialis anterior muscle in healthy adults	12
Regulation of body weight and food intake by AGRP neurons during opioid dependence and abstinence in mice	12
Profiling neurotransmitter-evoked glial responses by RNA-sequencing analysis	12
Cannabinoids in Chronic Pain: Therapeutic Potential Through Microglia Modulation	12
Effects of Cortical Cooling on Sound Processing in Auditory Cortex and Thalamus of Awake Marmosets	12
Evidence of spatial periodic firing in the subiculum of mice	11
Editorial: GABAergic circuits in health and disease	11
A Novel Device of Reaching, Grasping, and Retrieving Task for Head-Fixed Mice	11
A neurocomputational analysis of visual bias on bimanual tactile spatial perception during a crossmodal exposure	11
Early-life stress differentially affects CA3 synaptic inputs converging on apical and basal dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons	11
Delays in the Reticulospinal System Are Associated With a Reduced Capacity to Learn a Simulated Feeding Task in Older Adults	11
Specific structural changes in Parkinson’s disease-related olfactory dysfunction compared to others forms of olfactory dysfunction	11
Spinal inhibitory interneurons: regulators of coordination during locomotor activity	10
Hierarchical predictive coding in distributed pain circuits	10
Electrophysiologically distinct bed nucleus of the stria terminalis projections to the ventral tegmental area in mice	10
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	10
Cupid’s quiver: Integrating sensory cues in rodent mating systems	10
Editorial: Unveiling the structure and function of brain microcircuits: Experiments, algorithms and simulations	10
Amygdala Underlies the Environment Dependency of Defense Responses Induced via Superior Colliculus	10
Optimization of modularity during development to simplify walking control across multiple steps	10
Role of locomotor efference copy in vertebrate gaze stabilization	10