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Bruce L. McNaughton

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
125
Citations
75527
World Ranking
320
National Ranking
192

Bruce L. McNaughton publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bruce L. McNaughton sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 290 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Bruce L. McNaughton D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bruce L. McNaughton sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 125 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Bruce L. McNaughton is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a strong concentration in cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. They have also contributed to fields intersecting with artificial intelligence, electrical and electronic engineering, and sensory systems.

The main areas of study for McNaughton include:

  • Neuroscience

Within this broad field, their subfields of research cover:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Sensory Systems

Key topics addressed in their work are:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

McNaughton has published extensively, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Current Biology
  • Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Nature Communications

Some notable papers by McNaughton include:

  • "Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines," 2022, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • "A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Spatiotemporal patterns of neocortical activity around hippocampal sharp-wave ripples," 2020, eLife
  • "Integration of new information in memory: new insights from a complementary learning systems perspective," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model," 2022, Nature reviews. Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in McNaughton's research include:

  • Majid H. Mohajerani
  • Ingrid M. Esteves
  • Rajat Saxena
  • HaoRan Chang
  • Masami Tatsuno

In recognition of their scientific contributions, McNaughton was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016, acknowledged by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory.

    James L. McClelland;Bruce L. McNaughton;Randall C. O'Reilly

  • Reactivation of hippocampal ensemble memories during sleep.

    Matthew A. Wilson;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • Dynamics of the hippocampal ensemble code for space

    Matthew A. Wilson;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • Path integration and the neural basis of the 'cognitive map'

    Bruce L. McNaughton;Bruce L. McNaughton;Francesco P. Battaglia;Ole Jensen;Edvard I Moser

  • Theta phase precession in hippocampal neuronal populations and the compression of temporal sequences.

    William E. Skaggs;Bruce L. McNaughton;Matthew A. Wilson;Carol A. Barnes

  • Conjunctive Representation of Position, Direction, and Velocity in Entorhinal Cortex

    Francesca Sargolini;Marianne Fyhn;Torkel Hafting;Bruce L. McNaughton;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • The role of medial prefrontal cortex in memory and decision making.

    David R. Euston;Aaron J. Gruber;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • Hippocampal synaptic enhancement and information storage within a distributed memory system

    B.L. McNaughton;R.G.M. Morris

  • Replay of Neuronal Firing Sequences in Rat Hippocampus During Sleep Following Spatial Experience

    William E. Skaggs;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • Environment-specific expression of the immediate-early gene Arc in hippocampal neuronal ensembles.

    John F. Guzowski;Bruce L. McNaughton;Carol A. Barnes;Paul F. Worley

  • The contributions of position, direction, and velocity to single unit activity in the hippocampus of freely-moving rats.

    B. L. McNaughton;C. A. Barnes;J. O'Keefe

  • PATH INTEGRATION AND COGNITIVE MAPPING IN A CONTINUOUS ATTRACTOR NEURAL NETWORK MODEL

    Alexei Samsonovich;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • DECIPHERING THE HIPPOCAMPAL POLYGLOT: THE HIPPOCAMPUS AS A PATH INTEGRATION SYSTEM

    B L McNaughton;C A Barnes;J L Gerrard;K Gothard

  • Independent Codes for Spatial and Episodic Memory in Hippocampal Neuronal Ensembles

    Stefan Leutgeb;Jill K. Leutgeb;Jill K. Leutgeb;Carol A. Barnes;Carol A. Barnes;Edvard I. Moser;Edvard I. Moser

  • Comparison of spatial firing characteristics of units in dorsal and ventral hippocampus of the rat

    MW Jung;SI Wiener;BL McNaughton

  • Tetrodes markedly improve the reliability and yield of multiple single-unit isolation from multi-unit recordings in cat striate cortex.

    Charles M. Gray;Pedro E. Maldonado;Mathew Wilson;Bruce McNaughton

  • Spatial selectivity of unit activity in the hippocampal granular layer.

    M. W. Jung;B. L. McNaughton

  • Interpreting neuronal population activity by reconstruction : unified framework with application to hippocampal place cells

    Kechen Zhang;Iris Ginzburg;Bruce L. McNaughton;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Terrence J. Sejnowski

  • Reactivation of Hippocampal Cell Assemblies: Effects of Behavioral State, Experience, and EEG Dynamics

    Hemant S. Kudrimoti;Carol A. Barnes;Bruce L. McNaughton

  • Interactions between location and task affect the spatial and directional firing of hippocampal neurons

    Etan J. Markus;Yu Lin Qin;Brian Leonard;William E. Skaggs

  • Learning and memory

    Daniel L. Alkon;David G. Amaral;Mark F. Bear;Joel Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol A. Barnes
Carol A. Barnes University of Arizona
Paul F. Worley
Paul F. Worley Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
James J. Knierim
James J. Knierim Johns Hopkins University
Edvard I. Moser
Edvard I. Moser Norwegian University of Science and Technology
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Thomas C. Foster
Thomas C. Foster University of Florida
Cyriel M. A. Pennartz
Cyriel M. A. Pennartz University of Amsterdam
Sheri J. Y. Mizumori
Sheri J. Y. Mizumori University of Washington
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Terrence J. Sejnowski Salk Institute for Biological Studies
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University

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