Thomas J. Wills

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Wills is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Sensory Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Wills has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 3 papers in Sensory Systems. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Wills's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (24 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (23 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (5 papers). Thomas J. Wills is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (24 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (23 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (5 papers). Thomas J. Wills collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Singapore. Thomas J. Wills's co-authors include Francesca Cacucci, John O’Keefe, Neil Burgess, Colin Lever, Laurenz Muessig, Hui Min Tan, Paul F. Chapman, Steven Poulter, Jonas Hauser and Caswell Barry and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Wills

24 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Representation of the Local Environment

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

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

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas J. Wills United Kingdom	19	1.9k	1.5k	235	184	141	24	2.2k
Francesca Sargolini France	22	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	215 0.9×	274 1.5×	138 1.0×	35	2.3k
Trygve Solstad Norway	8	2.3k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	168 0.7×	269 1.5×	187 1.3×	14	2.6k
Douglas A. Nitz United States	29	2.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	189 0.8×	193 1.0×	116 0.8×	63	3.0k
Emilio Kropff Argentina	13	2.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	204 0.9×	263 1.4×	215 1.5×	25	3.0k
Benjamin J. Clark United States	26	1.4k 0.7×	807 0.6×	201 0.9×	340 1.8×	157 1.1×	61	1.9k
James A. Ainge United Kingdom	20	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	240 1.0×	136 0.7×	143 1.0×	36	2.0k
Pierre‐Pascal Lenck‐Santini United States	28	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	185 0.8×	106 0.6×	125 0.9×	52	2.6k
Rosamund F. Langston United Kingdom	13	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	248 1.1×	122 0.7×	90 0.6×	20	2.4k
Patricia E. Sharp United States	26	2.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	204 0.9×	414 2.3×	221 1.6×	41	2.4k
Vegard Heimly Brun Norway	8	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	216 0.9×	114 0.6×	79 0.6×	13	1.6k

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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

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

Poulter, Steven, Sang Ah Lee, James Dachtler, Thomas J. Wills, & Colin Lever. (2020). Vector trace cells in the subiculum of the hippocampal formation. Nature Neuroscience. 24(2). 266–275. 45 indexed citations

Muessig, Laurenz, et al.. (2019). Coordinated Emergence of Hippocampal Replay and Theta Sequences during Post-natal Development. Current Biology. 29(5). 834–840.e4. 55 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

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

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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Muessig, Laurenz, Jonas Hauser, Thomas J. Wills, & Francesca Cacucci. (2015). A Developmental Switch in Place Cell Accuracy Coincides with Grid Cell Maturation. Neuron. 86(5). 1167–1173. 64 indexed citations

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Wills, Thomas J. & Francesca Cacucci. (2013). The development of the hippocampal neural representation of space. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 24(1). 111–119. 10 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, et al.. (2008). Place cell firing correlates with memory deficits and amyloid plaque burden in Tg2576 Alzheimer mouse model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(22). 7863–7868. 110 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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Wills, Thomas J., Colin Lever, Francesca Cacucci, Neil Burgess, & John O’Keefe. (2005). Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Representation of the Local Environment. Science. 308(5723). 873–876. 422 indexed citations breakdown →

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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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French, Pim J., Valérie Doyère, Sabrina Davis, et al.. (2003). LTP but not seizure is associated with up‐regulation of AKAP‐150. European Journal of Neuroscience. 17(2). 331–340. 18 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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