May‐Britt Moser

43.0k total citations · 31 hit papers
117 papers, 27.1k citations indexed

About

May‐Britt Moser is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, May‐Britt Moser has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 27.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 108 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 12 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in May‐Britt Moser's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (109 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (100 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (37 papers). May‐Britt Moser is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (109 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (100 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (37 papers). May‐Britt Moser collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and Netherlands. May‐Britt Moser's co-authors include Edvard I Moser, Marianne Fyhn, Torkel Hafting, Menno P. Witter, Sturla Molden, Stefan Leutgeb, Emilio Kropff, Bruce L. McNaughton, Jill K. Leutgeb and Ole Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

May‐Britt Moser

117 papers receiving 26.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

2005 2.5k citations Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn et al. Nature profile →
Path integration and the neural basis of the 'cognitive map'

2006 1.3k citations Bruce L. McNaughton, Edvard I Moser et al. profile →
Place Cells, Grid Cells, and the Brain's Spatial Representation System

2008 1.2k citations Edvard I Moser, Emilio Kropff et al. profile →
Pattern Separation in the Dentate Gyrus and CA3 of the Hippocampus

2007 1.2k citations Jill K. Leutgeb, Stefan Leutgeb et al. Science profile →
Functional differentiation in the hippocampus

1998 1.1k citations May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser profile →
Frequency of gamma oscillations routes flow of information in the hippocampus

2009 975 citations Marianne Fyhn, Torkel Hafting et al. Nature profile →
Conjunctive Representation of Position, Direction, and Velocity in Entorhinal Cortex

2006 939 citations Marianne Fyhn, Torkel Hafting et al. Science profile →
Spatial Representation in the Entorhinal Cortex

2004 883 citations Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden et al. Science profile →
Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

2008 742 citations Emilio Kropff, May‐Britt Moser et al. Science profile →
Spatial learning with a minislab in the dorsal hippocampus.

1995 698 citations May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Reduced fear expression after lesions of the ventral hippocampus

2002 680 citations Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Independent Codes for Spatial and Episodic Memory in Hippocampal Neuronal Ensembles

2005 596 citations Stefan Leutgeb, Jill K. Leutgeb et al. Science profile →
Distinct Ensemble Codes in Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1

2004 547 citations Stefan Leutgeb, Jill K. Leutgeb et al. Science profile →
Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex

2007 506 citations Marianne Fyhn, Torkel Hafting et al. Nature profile →
An increase in dendritic spine density on hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells following spatial learning in adult rats suggests the formation of new synapses.

1994 498 citations May‐Britt Moser et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Finite Scale of Spatial Representation in the Hippocampus

2008 473 citations Torkel Hafting, Stefan Leutgeb et al. Science profile →
Place Cells and Place Recognition Maintained by Direct Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuitry

2002 458 citations Sturla Molden, Menno P. Witter et al. Science profile →
Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

2010 430 citations Jonathan J. Couey, Tale L. Bjerknes et al. Science profile →
The entorhinal grid map is discretized

2012 427 citations May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser et al. Nature profile →
Speed cells in the medial entorhinal cortex

2015 418 citations Emilio Kropff, May‐Britt Moser et al. Nature profile →
Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

2010 367 citations Menno P. Witter, Edvard I Moser et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Hippocampus-independent phase precession in entorhinal grid cells

2008 343 citations Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn et al. Nature profile →
Spatial representation in the hippocampal formation: a history

2017 317 citations Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Coordination of entorhinal–hippocampal ensemble activity during associative learning

2014 303 citations May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser et al. Nature profile →
Integrating time from experience in the lateral entorhinal cortex

2018 288 citations Albert Tsao, May‐Britt Moser et al. Nature profile →
Recurrent inhibitory circuitry as a mechanism for grid formation

2013 286 citations Jonathan J. Couey, Aree Witoelar et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Impaired Spatial Representation in CA1 after Lesion of Direct Input from Entorhinal Cortex

2008 284 citations Stefan Leutgeb, Menno P. Witter et al. Neuron profile →
Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus

2013 249 citations Tora Bonnevie, Benjamin Dunn et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Grid cells and cortical representation

2014 211 citations Edvard I Moser, Yasser Roudi et al. profile →
Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells

2022 172 citations Richard J. Gardner, Benjamin Dunn et al. Nature profile →
Large-scale two-photon calcium imaging in freely moving mice

2022 155 citations Weijian Zong, Horst A. Obenhaus et al. Cell profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space 2025 ·Nature ·(unknown), Richard J. Gardner, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	5
2	Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex 2025 ·Science ·Benjamin R. Kanter, Christine Lykken, (unknown), May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	3
3	Environment geometry alters subiculum boundary vector cell receptive fields in adulthood and early development 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Laurenz Muessig, (unknown), Tale L. Bjerknes, (unknown), Caswell Barry, Neil Burgess, Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser, Francesca Cacucci, Thomas J. Wills	8
4	Investigating egocentric tuning in hippocampal CA1 neurons 2024 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Jordan Carpenter, Jan Sigurd Blackstad, David Tingley, (unknown), Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser, Benjamin Dunn	1
5	Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus 2023 ·Neuron ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser	19
6	Functional network topography of the medial entorhinal cortex 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Horst A. Obenhaus, Weijian Zong, R. Irene Jacobsen, Tobias Rose, Flavio Donato, Liangyi Chen, Heping Cheng, Tobias Bonhoeffer, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	27
7	Large-scale two-photon calcium imaging in freely moving mice breakdown → 2022 ·Cell ·Weijian Zong, Horst A. Obenhaus, Emilie Ranheim Skytøen, (unknown), (unknown), Ruben Vale, Marina Jorge, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	155
8	A Brainstem Locomotor Circuit Drives the Activity of Speed Cells in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex 2020 ·Cell Reports ·Miguel M. Carvalho, (unknown), Emilio Kropff, Menno P. Witter, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	39
9	Hippocampal Remapping after Partial Inactivation of the Medial Entorhinal Cortex 2015 ·Neuron ·Chenglin Miao, (unknown), Hiroshi Ito, Homare Yamahachi, Menno P. Witter, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	86
10	INFLUENCE OF MORACIN ON DMBA-TPA INDUCED SKIN TUMERIGENESIS IN THE MOUSE 2014 ·International Journal of Bioassays ·Vitthalrao B. Khyade, (unknown), Sun, (unknown), May‐Britt Moser	2
11	Topography of Head Direction Cells in Medial Entorhinal Cortex 2014 ·Current Biology ·Lisa M. Giocomo, (unknown), Tora Bonnevie, (unknown), May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	88
12	Recurrent inhibitory circuitry as a mechanism for grid formation breakdown → 2013 ·Nature Neuroscience ·Jonathan J. Couey, Aree Witoelar, Sheng-Jia Zhang, Kang Zheng, Jing Ye, Benjamin Dunn, Rafał Czajkowski, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser, Yasser Roudi, Menno P. Witter	286
13	Grid Cells Use HCN1 Channels for Spatial Scaling 2011 ·Cell ·Lisa M. Giocomo, S. Abid Hussaini, Zheng Fan, Eric R. Kandel, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	116
14	Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment 2009 ·Nature Neuroscience ·Dori Derdikman, Jonathan R. Whitlock, Albert Tsao, Marianne Fyhn, Torkel Hafting, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	218
15	Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex breakdown → 2007 ·Nature ·Marianne Fyhn, Torkel Hafting, Alessandro Treves, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	506
16	Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex breakdown → 2005 ·Nature ·Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	2464
17	Progressive Transformation of Hippocampal Neuronal Representations in “Morphed” Environments 2005 ·Neuron ·Jill K. Leutgeb, Stefan Leutgeb, Alessandro Treves, (unknown), Carol A. Barnes, Bruce L. McNaughton, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	248
18	Distinct Ensemble Codes in Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 breakdown → 2004 ·Science ·Stefan Leutgeb, Jill K. Leutgeb, Alessandro Treves, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	547
19	Pretraining and the Function of Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation 2000 ·Neuron ·May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser	16
20	Is learning blocked by saturation of synaptic weights in the hippocampus? 1999 ·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ·Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser	45

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