Francesca Cacucci

4.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
36 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Francesca Cacucci is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Cacucci has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Francesca Cacucci's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (33 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (29 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (7 papers). Francesca Cacucci is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (33 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (29 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (7 papers). Francesca Cacucci collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Singapore. Francesca Cacucci's co-authors include Neil Burgess, Thomas J. Wills, John O’Keefe, Colin Lever, Guifen Chen, John A. King, Yi Lü, Tom T. Hartley, Laurenz Muessig and Sarah Stewart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Cacucci

36 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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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.

Differential influences of environment and self-motion on place and grid cell firing

2019 517 citations Guifen Chen, Yi Lü et al. Nature Communications profile →
Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Representation of the Local Environment

2005 422 citations Thomas J. Wills, Colin Lever et al. profile →
Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats

2010 393 citations Thomas J. Wills, Francesca Cacucci et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca Cacucci United Kingdom	24	2.3k	1.7k	309	289	263	36	3.2k
Robert U. Muller United States	32	3.2k 1.4×	2.8k 1.6×	421 1.4×	371 1.3×	357 1.4×	59	3.8k
Majid H. Mohajerani Canada	35	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	532 1.7×	493 1.7×	396 1.5×	120	3.9k
Emma R. Wood United Kingdom	32	4.1k 1.8×	3.2k 1.8×	772 2.5×	401 1.4×	420 1.6×	76	5.6k
Étienne Save France	35	2.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	383 1.2×	203 0.7×	506 1.9×	76	3.2k
Hiroshi Ito Japan	19	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	212 0.7×	589 2.0×	57 0.2×	61	2.3k
Akichika Mikami Japan	34	2.8k 1.3×	871 0.5×	253 0.8×	694 2.4×	165 0.6×	96	3.9k
Juan Carlos López Spain	25	940 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	272 0.9×	642 2.2×	129 0.5×	107	2.7k
Matthijs A. A. van der Meer United States	25	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	165 0.5×	301 1.0×	135 0.5×	44	3.3k
Joel M. Stein United States	38	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	277 0.9×	1.0k 3.6×	75 0.3×	98	4.2k
Daniel A. Dombeck United States	28	2.8k 1.2×	3.6k 2.1×	549 1.8×	1.3k 4.5×	312 1.2×	43	5.6k

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Muessig, Laurenz, Tale L. Bjerknes, Caswell Barry, et al.. (2024). Environment geometry alters subiculum boundary vector cell receptive fields in adulthood and early development. Nature Communications. 15(1). 982–982. 8 indexed citations

Cacucci, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Visual boundary cues suffice to anchor place and grid cells in virtual reality. Current Biology. 34(10). 2256–2264.e3. 2 indexed citations

Chareyron, Loïc J., Jocelyne Bachevalier, Francesca Cacucci, et al.. (2024). Episodic memory development: Bridging animal and human research. Neuron. 112(7). 1060–1080. 14 indexed citations

Chen, Guifen, John A. King, Yi Lü, Francesca Cacucci, & Neil Burgess. (2018). Spatial cell firing during virtual navigation of open arenas by head-restrained mice. eLife. 7. 45 indexed citations

Bassett, Joshua P., Thomas J. Wills, & Francesca Cacucci. (2018). Self-Organized Attractor Dynamics in the Developing Head Direction Circuit. Current Biology. 28(4). 609–615.e3. 24 indexed citations

Medawar, Evelyn, Wenfei Liu, Owain T. James, et al.. (2018). Effects of rising amyloidβ levels on hippocampal synaptic transmission, microglial response and cognition in APPSwe/PSEN1M146V transgenic mice. EBioMedicine. 39. 422–435. 13 indexed citations

Cacucci, Francesca, Patricia C. Salinas, & Thomas J. Wills. (2017). Hippocampus: Activity-Driven Maturation of Neural Circuits for Navigation. Current Biology. 27(11). R428–R430. 3 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

Chen, Guifen, Daniel K. Manson, Francesca Cacucci, & Thomas J. Wills. (2016). Absence of Visual Input Results in the Disruption of Grid Cell Firing in the Mouse. Current Biology. 26(17). 2335–2342. 78 indexed citations

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Muessig, Laurenz, Jonas Hauser, Thomas J. Wills, & Francesca Cacucci. (2016). Place Cell Networks in Pre-weanling Rats Show Associative Memory Properties from the Onset of Exploratory Behavior. Cerebral Cortex. 26(8). 3627–3636. 19 indexed citations

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Tan, Hui Min, Joshua P. Bassett, John O’Keefe, Francesca Cacucci, & Thomas J. Wills. (2015). The Development of the Head Direction System before Eye Opening in the Rat. Current Biology. 25(4). 479–483. 45 indexed citations

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Wills, Thomas J., Caswell Barry, & Francesca Cacucci. (2012). The abrupt development of adult-like grid cell firing in the medial entorhinal cortex. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 6. 21–21. 61 indexed citations

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Lever, Colin, Stephen Burton, Ali Jeewajee, et al.. (2009). Environmental novelty elicits a later theta phase of firing in CA1 but not subiculum. Hippocampus. 20(2). 229–234. 55 indexed citations

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Cacucci, Francesca, Thomas J. Wills, Colin Lever, Karl-Peter Giese, & John O’Keefe. (2007). Experience-Dependent Increase in CA1 Place Cell Spatial Information, But Not Spatial Reproducibility, Is Dependent on the Autophosphorylation of the α-Isoform of the Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(29). 7854–7859. 48 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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Cacucci, Francesca, Colin Lever, Thomas J. Wills, Neil Burgess, & John O’Keefe. (2004). Theta-Modulated Place-by-Direction Cells in the Hippocampal Formation in the Rat. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(38). 8265–8277. 123 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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Hartley, Tom T., Neil Burgess, Colin Lever, Francesca Cacucci, & John O’Keefe. (2000). Modeling place fields in terms of the cortical inputs to the hippocampus. Hippocampus. 10(4). 369–379. 262 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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