Ewelina Knapska

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ewelina Knapska is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ewelina Knapska has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 26 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ewelina Knapska's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (24 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (20 papers). Ewelina Knapska is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (24 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (20 papers). Ewelina Knapska collaborates with scholars based in Poland, United States and Switzerland. Ewelina Knapska's co-authors include Leszek Kaczmarek, Stephen Maren, Tomasz Werka, Caitlin A. Orsini, Marta Mikosz, Jee Hyun Kim, Ksenia Meyza, Andreas Olsson, Björn Lindström and Kasia Radwańska and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Physiological Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ewelina Knapska

60 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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The neural and computational systems of social learning

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Sarina M. Rodrigues United States

Natalie C. Tronson United States

Shannon L. Gourley United States

Susan B. Powell United States

Sarah M. Clinton United States

Francesco Papaleo Italy

Oliver Stork Germany

Jonathan C. Gewirtz United States

Stéphane Ciocchi Switzerland

Joel Finkelstein United States

Sarina M. Rodrigues United States

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Borowska, Joanna, Joanna Jędrzejewska‐Szmek, L. Mankiewicz, et al.. (2025). Information sharing within a social network is key to behavioral flexibility—Lessons from mice tested under seminaturalistic conditions. Science Advances. 11(1). eadm7255–eadm7255. 1 indexed citations

Rydzanicz, Małgorzata, Bożena Kuźniewska, Tomasz Wójtowicz, et al.. (2024). Mutation in the mitochondrial chaperone TRAP1 leads to autism with more severe symptoms in males. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 16(11). 2976–3004. 2 indexed citations

Hamed, Adam, et al.. (2023). Rats respond to aversive emotional arousal of human handlers with the activation of the basolateral and central amygdala. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(46). e2302655120–e2302655120. 4 indexed citations

Meyza, Ksenia, et al.. (2023). Optogenetic and chemogenetic approaches reveal differences in neuronal circuits that mediate initiation and maintenance of social interaction. PLoS Biology. 21(11). e3002343–e3002343. 3 indexed citations

Górkiewicz, Tomasz, et al.. (2022). Brain size, gut size and cognitive abilities: the energy trade-offs tested in artificial selection experiment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1972). 20212747–20212747. 8 indexed citations

Keysers, Christian, Ewelina Knapska, Marta A. Moita, & Valeria Gazzola. (2022). Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26(8). 688–706. 62 indexed citations

Beroun, Anna, Piotr Michaluk, Jacek Jaworski, et al.. (2022). SRF depletion in early life contributes to social interaction deficits in the adulthood. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 79(5). 278–278. 8 indexed citations

Meyza, Ksenia, Adam Hamed, Miron B. Kursa, et al.. (2021). Distinct circuits in rat central amygdala for defensive behaviors evoked by socially signaled imminent versus remote danger. Current Biology. 31(11). 2347–2358.e6. 29 indexed citations

Winiarski, M., et al.. (2021). Ability to share emotions of others as a foundation of social learning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 132. 23–36. 13 indexed citations

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Knapska, Ewelina, et al.. (2021). Relaying Aversive Ultrasonic Alarm Calls Depends on Previous Experience. Empathy, Social Buffering, or Panic?. Brain Sciences. 11(6). 759–759. 9 indexed citations

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Nikolaev, Evgeni, et al.. (2021). Hippocampal Inputs in the Prelimbic Cortex Curb Fear after Extinction. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(44). 9129–9140. 18 indexed citations

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Meyza, Ksenia & Ewelina Knapska. (2018). What can rodents teach us about empathy?. Current Opinion in Psychology. 24. 15–20. 28 indexed citations

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Meyza, Ksenia, Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, Marie‐H. Monfils, Jules B. Panksepp, & Ewelina Knapska. (2016). The roots of empathy: Through the lens of rodent models. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 76(Pt B). 216–234. 127 indexed citations

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Mikosz, Marta, et al.. (2015). Sex differences in social modulation of learning in rats. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 18114–18114. 50 indexed citations

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Meyza, Ksenia, et al.. (2015). Neuronal correlates of asocial behavior in a BTBR T+Itpr3tf/J mouse model of autism. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 9. 199–199. 31 indexed citations

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Knapska, Ewelina, Anna Kiryk, Marta Mikosz, et al.. (2013). Reward Learning Requires Activity of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in the Central Amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(36). 14591–14600. 62 indexed citations

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Jahołkowski, Piotr, Anna Kiryk, Paulina Jedynak, et al.. (2009). New hippocampal neurons are not obligatory for memory formation; cyclin D2 knockout mice with no adult brain neurogenesis show learning. Learning & Memory. 16(7). 439–451. 106 indexed citations

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Knapska, Ewelina & Stephen Maren. (2009). Reciprocal patterns of c-fos expression in the medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala after extinction and renewal of conditioned fear in rats. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 69(3). 2 indexed citations

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Knapska, Ewelina & Leszek Kaczmarek. (2004). A gene for neuronal plasticity in the mammalian brain: Zif268/Egr-1/NGFI-A/Krox-24/TIS8/ZENK?. Progress in Neurobiology. 74(4). 183–211. 308 indexed citations

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Radwańska, Kasia, Evgeni Nikolaev, Ewelina Knapska, & Leszek Kaczmarek. (2002). Differential response of two subdivisions of lateral amygdala to aversive conditioning as revealed by c-Fos and P-ERK mapping. Neuroreport. 13(17). 2241–2246. 37 indexed citations

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