Denise J. Cai

4.7k total citations
42 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Denise J. Cai is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Denise J. Cai has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 28 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Denise J. Cai's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (23 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (22 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (16 papers). Denise J. Cai is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (23 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (22 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (16 papers). Denise J. Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Denise J. Cai's co-authors include Sara C. Mednick, Tristan Shuman, Jennifer C. Kanady, E. Harrison, Sarnoff A. Mednick, Alcino J. Silva, Stephan Anagnostaras, Yoshitake Sano, Timothy C. Rickard and William Mau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Denise J. Cai

40 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Denise J. Cai United States 20 1.4k 703 462 169 155 42 1.9k
Rudolf Rübsamen Germany 31 1.9k 1.4× 784 1.1× 444 1.0× 459 2.7× 175 1.1× 86 2.9k
Ryoi Tamura Japan 25 1.4k 1.1× 777 1.1× 232 0.5× 191 1.1× 92 0.6× 73 2.0k
Emmanuel Procyk France 27 2.3k 1.7× 398 0.6× 189 0.4× 109 0.6× 98 0.6× 62 2.7k
Matthias H. Munk Germany 21 2.3k 1.7× 849 1.2× 175 0.4× 173 1.0× 118 0.8× 39 2.6k
Georgios A. Keliris Belgium 21 1.8k 1.4× 615 0.9× 240 0.5× 191 1.1× 102 0.7× 70 2.4k
Jordan P. Hamm United States 28 1.6k 1.2× 736 1.0× 251 0.5× 257 1.5× 119 0.8× 49 2.2k
Yoshinao Kajikawa United States 18 1.6k 1.2× 690 1.0× 479 1.0× 209 1.2× 54 0.3× 31 2.0k
Christopher J. MacDonald United States 16 1.6k 1.2× 863 1.2× 133 0.3× 76 0.4× 127 0.8× 21 1.9k
Matthew J. McGinley United States 17 2.1k 1.5× 1.2k 1.7× 149 0.3× 395 2.3× 201 1.3× 30 2.7k
Avi Chaudhuri Canada 26 1.3k 1.0× 761 1.1× 337 0.7× 467 2.8× 107 0.7× 56 2.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Denise J. Cai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Feng, Yu, Zhe Dong, Zachary T. Pennington, et al.. (2025). Distinct changes to hippocampal and medial entorhinal circuits emerge across the progression of cognitive deficits in epilepsy. Cell Reports. 44(2). 115131–115131. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Denise J., et al.. (2025). Neural network-based performance prediction of marine UHPC with coarse aggregates. Frontiers in Materials. 12. 1 indexed citations
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Zaki, Yosif, Zachary T. Pennington, Zhe Dong, et al.. (2024). Offline ensemble co-reactivation links memories across days. Nature. 637(8044). 145–155. 8 indexed citations
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Zaki, Yosif & Denise J. Cai. (2024). Memory engram stability and flexibility. Neuropsychopharmacology. 50(1). 285–293. 6 indexed citations
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Blaze, Jennifer, Petr Unichenko, Behnam Javidfar, et al.. (2024). Neuron-Specific Glycine Metabolism Links Transfer RNA Epitranscriptomic Regulation to Complex Behaviors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 100432–100432.
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Pennington, Zachary T., Yu Feng, Zhe Dong, et al.. (2024). Dissociable contributions of the amygdala and ventral hippocampus to stress-induced changes in defensive behavior. Cell Reports. 43(11). 114871–114871. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Lingxuan, Lauren M. Vetere, N. D. Vaughan, et al.. (2023). Progressive Excitability Changes in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex in the 3xTg Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(44). 7441–7454. 9 indexed citations
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Cuttoli, Romain Durand-de, Freddyson J. Martínez-Rivera, Long Li, et al.. (2023). A Double Hit of Social and Economic Stress in Mice Precipitates Changes in Decision-Making Strategies. Biological Psychiatry. 96(1). 67–78. 4 indexed citations
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Vaughan, N. D., Yu Feng, Lauren M. Vetere, et al.. (2023). Chronotate: An open-source tool for manual timestamping and quantification of animal behavior. Neuroscience Letters. 814. 137461–137461. 3 indexed citations
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Pennington, Zachary T., et al.. (2021). ezTrack—A Step‐by‐Step Guide to Behavior Tracking. Current Protocols. 1(10). e255–e255. 12 indexed citations
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Sweis, Brian M., et al.. (2020). Dynamic and heterogeneous neural ensembles contribute to a memory engram. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 67. 199–206. 28 indexed citations
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Pennington, Zachary T., Zhe Dong, Yu Feng, et al.. (2019). ezTrack: An open-source video analysis pipeline for the investigation of animal behavior. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19979–19979. 119 indexed citations
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Kastellakis, George, Denise J. Cai, Sara C. Mednick, Alcino J. Silva, & Panayiota Poirazi. (2015). Synaptic clustering within dendrites: An emerging theory of memory formation. Progress in Neurobiology. 126. 19–35. 125 indexed citations
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Sano, Yoshitake, Justin L. Shobe, Miou Zhou, et al.. (2014). CREB Regulates Memory Allocation in the Insular Cortex. Current Biology. 24(23). 2833–2837. 74 indexed citations
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Wixted, John T. & Denise J. Cai. (2013). Memory Consolidation. Oxford University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Cai, Denise J. & Timothy C. Rickard. (2009). Reconsidering the role of sleep for motor memory.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 123(6). 1153–1157. 32 indexed citations
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Cai, Denise J., Tristan Shuman, Michael R. Gorman, Jennifer R Sage, & Stephan Anagnostaras. (2009). Sleep selectively enhances hippocampus-dependent memory in mice.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 123(4). 713–719. 42 indexed citations
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Mednick, Sara C., et al.. (2009). Sleep and rest facilitate implicit memory in a visual search task. Vision Research. 49(21). 2557–2565. 49 indexed citations
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Cai, Denise J., Tristan Shuman, E. Harrison, Jennifer R Sage, & Stephan Anagnostaras. (2009). Sleep deprivation and Pavlovian fear conditioning. Learning & Memory. 16(10). 595–599. 17 indexed citations
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Mednick, Sara C., Denise J. Cai, Jennifer C. Kanady, & Sean P. A. Drummond. (2008). Comparing the benefits of caffeine, naps and placebo on verbal, motor and perceptual memory. Behavioural Brain Research. 193(1). 79–86. 75 indexed citations

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