Colin Lever

6.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Colin Lever is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Lever has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Colin Lever's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (42 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (34 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (10 papers). Colin Lever is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (42 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (34 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (10 papers). Colin Lever collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Colin Lever's co-authors include John O’Keefe, Neil Burgess, Francesca Cacucci, Stephen Burton, Thomas J. Wills, Tom T. Hartley, Ali Jeewajee, Vincent Douchamps, Steven Poulter and Caswell Barry and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Colin Lever

46 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

2009 467 citations Colin Lever, Stephen Burton et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Representation of the Local Environment

2005 422 citations Thomas J. Wills, Colin Lever et al. profile →
Space in the brain: how the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition

2013 319 citations Tom T. Hartley, Colin Lever et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Lever United Kingdom	28	3.2k	2.3k	356	348	303	47	4.0k
Sturla Molden Norway	7	3.8k 1.2×	2.9k 1.3×	418 1.2×	388 1.1×	184 0.6×	9	4.3k
Étienne Save France	35	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	506 1.4×	383 1.1×	225 0.7×	76	3.2k
Paul A. Dudchenko United Kingdom	31	4.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.3×	666 1.9×	478 1.4×	364 1.2×	70	5.1k
Francesco P. Battaglia Netherlands	31	5.9k 1.9×	3.4k 1.5×	348 1.0×	366 1.1×	229 0.8×	80	6.8k
Sidney I. Wiener France	32	4.6k 1.5×	3.5k 1.5×	436 1.2×	568 1.6×	280 0.9×	64	5.5k
Pierre Lavenex Switzerland	32	2.7k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	231 0.6×	325 0.9×	358 1.2×	76	4.3k
Emma R. Wood United Kingdom	32	4.1k 1.3×	3.2k 1.4×	420 1.2×	772 2.2×	478 1.6×	76	5.6k
Seralynne D. Vann United Kingdom	44	6.0k 1.9×	3.7k 1.6×	479 1.3×	626 1.8×	419 1.4×	98	7.5k
Robert U. Muller United States	32	3.2k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	357 1.0×	421 1.2×	218 0.7×	59	3.8k
Françoise Schenk Switzerland	23	1.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	353 1.0×	248 0.7×	231 0.8×	71	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Lever

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Poulter, Steven, et al.. (2024). Mice integrate conspecific and contextual information in forming social episodic-like memories under spontaneous recognition task conditions. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 16159–16159. 1 indexed citations

Avery, M. I., Colin Lever, & Holger Wiese. (2023). P8 Both good sleep quality and better psychological health predict reduced long-term forgetting of verbal episodic memory. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. A12–A14.

Poulter, Steven, et al.. (2023). Frequency matters: how changes in hippocampal theta frequency can influence temporal coding, anxiety-reduction, and memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 16. 998116–998116. 7 indexed citations

Baldo, Marcus Vinícius C., et al.. (2022). Neural correlates of distinct levels of predatory threat in dorsal periaqueductal grey neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(6). 1504–1518. 6 indexed citations

Lee, Sang Ah, et al.. (2020). Distinct and combined responses to environmental geometry and features in a working-memory reorientation task in rats and chicks. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 7508–7508. 16 indexed citations

Easton, Alexander, Marília Barros, & Colin Lever. (2020). Acetylcholine and Spontaneous Recognition Memory in Rodents and Primates. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences. 45. 29–45. 7 indexed citations

Pervolaraki, Eleftheria, Takashi Saito, Takaomi C. Saido, et al.. (2019). Insoluble Aβ overexpression in an App knock-in mouse model alters microstructure and gamma oscillations in the prefrontal cortex, affecting anxiety-related behaviours. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 12(9). 32 indexed citations

Poulter, Steven, et al.. (2019). En route to delineating hippocampal roles in spatial learning. Behavioural Brain Research. 369. 111936–111936. 7 indexed citations

Korotkova, Tatiana, Alexey Ponomarenko, Caitlin Monaghan, et al.. (2017). Reconciling the different faces of hippocampal theta: The role of theta oscillations in cognitive, emotional and innate behaviors. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 85. 65–80. 102 indexed citations

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Dachtler, James, et al.. (2015). Heterozygous deletion of α-neurexin I or α-neurexin II results in behaviors relevant to autism and schizophrenia.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 129(6). 765–776. 61 indexed citations

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Levita, Liat, et al.. (2014). The Behavioural Inhibition System, anxiety and hippocampal volume in a non-clinical population. PubMed. 4(1). 4–4. 40 indexed citations

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Wells, Christine, Ali Jeewajee, Vincent Douchamps, et al.. (2013). Novelty and Anxiolytic Drugs Dissociate Two Components of Hippocampal Theta in Behaving Rats. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(20). 8650–8667. 76 indexed citations

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Wells, Christine, Ali Jeewajee, Stephen Burton, et al.. (2009). Effects of anxiolytic drugs and environmental novelty support a two component model of hippocampal theta.. Social Neuroscience. 1 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Akira R., Colin Lever, & Chris J. A. Moulin. (2009). Novel insights into false recollection: A model of déjà vécu. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 15(1-3). 118–144. 18 indexed citations

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Wells, Christine, et al.. (2008). Changes to open field surfaces typically used to elicit hippocampal remapping elicit graded exploratory responses. Behavioural Brain Research. 197(1). 234–238. 17 indexed citations

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Barry, Caswell, Colin Lever, Robin Hayman, et al.. (2006). The Boundary Vector Cell Model of Place Cell Firing and Spatial Memory. Reviews in the Neurosciences. 17(1-2). 71–97. 264 indexed citations

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Cacucci, Francesca, et al.. (2004). Abrupt shift in hippocampal place cell representation from square-like to circle-like in a morph box. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Lever, Colin, Thomas J. Wills, Francesca Cacucci, Neil Burgess, & John O’Keefe. (2002). Long-term plasticity in hippocampal place-cell representation of environmental geometry. Nature. 416(6876). 90–94. 332 indexed citations

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Lever, Colin, Neil Burgess, Francesca Cacucci, Tom T. Hartley, & John O’Keefe. (2002). What can the hippocampal representation of environmental geometry tell us about Hebbian learning?. Biological Cybernetics. 87(5-6). 356–372. 32 indexed citations

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Lever, Colin, et al.. (1999). Squaring the circle: place fields do not "remap" between environments which differ only in shape. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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