James A. Ainge

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

James A. Ainge is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Ainge has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in James A. Ainge's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (20 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (6 papers). James A. Ainge is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (20 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (6 papers). James A. Ainge collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. James A. Ainge's co-authors include Rosamund F. Langston, David I. Wilson, Cathrin B. Canto, Menno P. Witter, Tale L. Bjerknes, Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser, Jonathan J. Couey, Emma R. Wood and Minija Tamošiūnaitė and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

James A. Ainge

34 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

2010 430 citations Rosamund F. Langston, James A. Ainge et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James A. Ainge United Kingdom	20	1.4k	1.3k	249	240	180	36	2.0k
Rosamund F. Langston United Kingdom	13	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	177 0.7×	248 1.0×	198 1.1×	20	2.4k
Jonathan R. Whitlock Norway	14	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	424 1.7×	311 1.3×	132 0.7×	22	2.4k
Alexey Ponomarenko Germany	21	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	451 1.8×	205 0.9×	153 0.8×	36	2.3k
Francesca Sargolini France	22	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	184 0.7×	215 0.9×	145 0.8×	35	2.3k
Stephen Burton United Kingdom	16	1.4k 1.0×	1000 0.8×	242 1.0×	108 0.5×	156 0.9×	26	2.1k
Etan J. Markus United States	26	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	197 0.8×	222 0.9×	205 1.1×	43	2.0k
Pierre‐Pascal Lenck‐Santini United States	28	1.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	269 1.1×	185 0.8×	65 0.4×	52	2.6k
Andrew J. D. Nelson United Kingdom	24	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	280 1.1×	146 0.6×	159 0.9×	55	2.1k
Thomas J. Wills United Kingdom	19	1.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	101 0.4×	235 1.0×	111 0.6×	24	2.2k
Jason Tucciarone United States	16	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	636 2.6×	164 0.7×	228 1.3×	18	2.4k

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Horner, Aidan J., James A. Ainge, Alexander Easton, et al.. (2025). Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations.

Barton, Robert A., et al.. (2024). Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: crossing the species gap. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1913). 20230406–20230406. 1 indexed citations

Easton, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 167. 105934–105934. 2 indexed citations

Duncan, Stephen F., et al.. (2024). Increased flexibility of CA3 memory representations following environmental enrichment. Current Biology. 34(9). 2011–2019.e7. 4 indexed citations

Niven, Ailsa, James A. Ainge, M. Kathryn Allison, et al.. (2023). Building partnerships: A case study of physical activity researchers and practitioners collaborating to build evidence to inform the delivery of a workplace step count challenge. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 4. 1067127–1067127. 1 indexed citations

Doherty, Gayle, et al.. (2022). Leptin‐based hexamers facilitate memory and prevent amyloid‐driven AMPA receptor internalisation and neuronal degeneration. Journal of Neurochemistry. 165(6). 809–826. 6 indexed citations

Ameen‐Ali, Kamar E., et al.. (2021). Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 182. 107439–107439. 6 indexed citations

Ainge, James A., et al.. (2018). The Role of Association in Pre-schoolers’ Solutions to “Spoon Tests” of Future Planning. Current Biology. 28(14). 2309–2313.e2. 22 indexed citations

Ainge, James A., et al.. (2017). Lateral Entorhinal Cortex Lesions Impair Local Spatial Frameworks. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 11. 30–30. 31 indexed citations

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Ainge, James A., et al.. (2016). A Leptin Fragment Mirrors the Cognitive Enhancing and Neuroprotective Actions of Leptin. Cerebral Cortex. 27(10). 4769–4782. 35 indexed citations

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Persson, Björn M., James A. Ainge, & Akira R. O’Connor. (2016). Disambiguating past events: Accurate source memory for time and context depends on different retrieval processes. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 132. 40–48. 7 indexed citations

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Bate, Sarah, et al.. (2014). Rehabilitation of face-processing skills in an adolescent with prosopagnosia: Evaluation of an online perceptual training programme. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 25(5). 733–762. 28 indexed citations

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Ainge, James A. & Rosamund F. Langston. (2012). Ontogeny of neural circuits underlying spatial memory in the rat. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 6. 8–8. 68 indexed citations

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Ainge, James A., Minija Tamošiūnaitė, Florentin Wörgötter, & Paul A. Dudchenko. (2011). Hippocampal place cells encode intended destination, and not a discriminative stimulus, in a conditional T‐maze task. Hippocampus. 22(3). 534–543. 38 indexed citations

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Tamošiūnaitė, Minija, James A. Ainge, Tomas Kulvičius, et al.. (2008). Path-finding in real and simulated rats: assessing the influence of path characteristics on navigation learning. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 25(3). 562–582. 8 indexed citations

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Ainge, James A., Matthijs A. A. van der Meer, Rosamund F. Langston, & Emma R. Wood. (2007). Exploring the role of context‐dependent hippocampal activity in spatial alternation behavior. Hippocampus. 17(10). 988–1002. 136 indexed citations

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Stanford, Lianne, Marcelo P. Coba, James A. Ainge, et al.. (2007). Synapse-Associated Protein 102/dlgh3 Couples the NMDA Receptor to Specific Plasticity Pathways and Learning Strategies. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(10). 2673–2682. 123 indexed citations

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Ainge, James A., et al.. (2007). Hippocampal CA1 Place Cells Encode Intended Destination on a Maze with Multiple Choice Points. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(36). 9769–9779. 115 indexed citations

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Ainge, James A., et al.. (2005). The role of the hippocampus in object recognition in rats: Examination of the influence of task parameters and lesion size. Behavioural Brain Research. 167(1). 183–195. 98 indexed citations

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Ainge, James A., Trisha A. Jenkins, & Philip Winn. (2004). Induction of c‐fos in specific thalamic nuclei following stimulation of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus. European Journal of Neuroscience. 20(7). 1827–1837. 17 indexed citations

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