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Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Jonathan Daume
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
2
Brad K. Hulse
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
3
Noah L. Pettit
Harvard University
4
Leenoy Meshulam
Allen Institute for Brain Science
5
Tamir Eliav
Weizmann Institute of Science
6
Adam I. Ramsaran
Hospital for Sick Children
7
Hristos Courellis
California Institute of Technology
8
Eleanor Spens
University of Oxford
9
Hannah L. Payne
Columbia University
10
Charles Findling
École Normale Supérieure

Papers

1
Control of working memory by phase–amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons
Nature|2024
140 cit.
2
Publication in Nature (2025) [51 citations, W4413946611]
Nature|2025
51 cit.
3
Publication in Current Biology (2025) [16 citations, W4409329437]
Current Biology|2025
16 cit.
4
Persistent activity during working memory maintenance predicts long-term memory formation in the human hippocampus
Neuron|2024
15 cit.
5
Remote activation of place codes by gaze in a highly visual animal
Nature|2025
12 cit.
6
Publication in Science Advances (2024) [10 citations, W4403918171]
Science Advances|2024
10 cit.
7
Publication in Cell (2025) [10 citations, W4411277248]
Cell|2025
10 cit.
8
Interactions between circuit architecture and plasticity in a closed-loop cerebellar system
eLife|2024
9 cit.
9
Publication in Nature Communications (2025) [2 citations, W4416535923]
Nature Communications|2025
2 cit.
10
Publication in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026) [W7161963840]
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Mazen A. Kheirbek
University of California, San Francisco
2
Marius Pachitariu
Janelia Research Campus
3
Jill X. O’Reilly
University of Oxford
4
Dharshan Kumaran
Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)
5
Bradley Lega
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
6
Shantanu P. Jadhav
Brandeis University
7
Blaise Dubois
Running Injury Clinic
8
Nadine Gogolla
ClearMotion (United States)
9
Bratislav Mišić
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
10
Aaron D. Milstein
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Papers

1
Cellpose 2.0: how to train your own model
Nature Methods|2022
1.4k cit.
2
Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex
Nature Neuroscience|2022
783 cit.
3
neuromaps: structural and functional interpretation of brain maps
Nature Methods|2022
471 cit.
4
Spike sorting with Kilosort4
Nature Methods|2024
390 cit.
5
Cellpose3: one-click image restoration for improved cellular segmentation
Nature Methods|2025
306 cit.
6
Local molecular and global connectomic contributions to cross-disorder cortical abnormalities
Nature Communications|2022
128 cit.
7
Neural dynamics underlying associative learning in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus
Nature Neuroscience|2023
100 cit.
8
Time-resolved structure-function coupling in brain networks
Communications Biology|2022
99 cit.
9
Human electromagnetic and haemodynamic networks systematically converge in unimodal cortex and diverge in transmodal cortex
PLoS Biology|2022
83 cit.
10
Neurophysiological signatures of cortical micro-architecture
Nature Communications|2023
80 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
György Buzsáki
New York University
2
Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)
3
Edvard I Moser
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
4
Joseph E. LeDoux
Aarhus University
5
Susumu Tonegawa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6
Bruce L. McNaughton
University of Arizona
7
Raymond J. Dolan
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
8
Daniel L. Schacter
Harvard University
9
Trevor W. Robbins
University of Cambridge
10
John O’Keefe
Sainsbury Laboratory

Papers

1
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Nature|2021
45.2k cit.
2
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
Nature|2015
30k cit.
3
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
Nature|2016
15.8k cit.
4
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
Nature|2017
9.2k cit.
5
Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions
Nature|1982
6.4k cit.
6
The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat
Brain Research|1971
6.3k cit.
7
Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex
Nature|2005
4.2k cit.
8
Somatic generation of antibody diversity
Nature|1983
4k cit.
9
A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play
Science|2018
3.5k cit.
10
Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
Nature|2020
3.5k cit.

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