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Jessica D. Payne

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
7836
World Ranking
8479
National Ranking
3610

Jessica D. Payne 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 Jessica D. Payne sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 110 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Jessica D. Payne 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 Jessica D. Payne sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Jessica D. Payne is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work spans various subfields including endocrine and autonomic systems, social psychology, and gender studies.

The main topics explored by Jessica D. Payne cover:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Jessica D. Payne's recent publications illustrate their focus on memory consolidation and the interaction of sleep with cognitive and psychiatric processes. Notable papers include:

  • Sleep Spindles Preferentially Consolidate Weakly Encoded Memories (2021), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • Comparing the Impact of COVID-19-Related Social Distancing on Mood and Psychiatric Indicators in Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) and Non-SGM Individuals (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human memory: Well-powered evidence from two large online experiments (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The functions of sleep: A cognitive neuroscience perspective (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Neural correlates of sleep, stress, and selective memory consolidation (2020), published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Dan Denis, Tony J. Cunningham, Sarah M. Kark, and Sara Y. Kim, reflecting ongoing collaborative research in psychology and neuroscience.

Jessica D. Payne's work has appeared repeatedly in prominent publication venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SLEEP
  • Preprints.org
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Human relational memory requires time and sleep

    Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen;Peter T. Hu;Jessica D. Payne;Debra Titone

  • Sleep Spindle Activity is Associated with the Integration of New Memories and Existing Knowledge

    Jakke Tamminen;Jessica D. Payne;Robert Stickgold;Erin J. Wamsley

  • Sleep Preferentially Enhances Memory for Emotional Components of Scenes

    Jessica D. Payne;Robert Stickgold;Kelley Swanberg;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • The role of sleep in declarative memory consolidation: passive, permissive, active or none?

    Jeffrey M Ellenbogen;Jessica D Payne;Robert Stickgold

  • The role of sleep in false memory formation.

    Jessica D. Payne;Daniel L. Schacter;Ruth E. Propper;Li Wen Huang

  • Dreaming of a Learning Task is Associated with Enhanced Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation

    Erin J. Wamsley;Matthew Tucker;Jessica D. Payne;Jessica D. Payne;Joseph A. Benavides

  • Stress administered prior to encoding impairs neutral but enhances emotional long-term episodic memories

    Jessica D. Payne;Eric D. Jackson;Siobhan Hoscheidt;Lee Ryan

  • The impact of stress on neutral and emotional aspects of episodic memory

    Jessica D. Payne;Eric D. Jackson;Lee Ryan;Siobhan Hoscheidt

  • Sleep, dreams, and memory consolidation: the role of the stress hormone cortisol.

    Jessica D. Payne;Lynn Nadel

  • The effects of experimentally induced stress on false recognition

    Jessica D. Payne;Lynn Nadel;John J.B. Allen;Kevin G.F. Thomas

  • Sleep’s Role in the Consolidation of Emotional Episodic Memories:

    Jessica D. Payne;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Sleep promotes lasting changes in selective memory for emotional scenes.

    Jessica D. Payne;Alexis M. Chambers;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Sleep leads to changes in the emotional memory trace: Evidence from fmri

    Jessica D. Payne;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Stress differentially modulates fear conditioning in healthy men and women.

    Eric D. Jackson;Jessica D. Payne;Lynn Nadel;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Memory for semantically related and unrelated declarative information: the benefit of sleep, the cost of wake.

    Jessica D. Payne;Matthew A. Tucker;Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen;Erin J. Wamsley

  • Paternal Participation in Child Care and Its Effects on Children's Self-Esteem and Attitudes Toward Gendered Roles

    Francine M. Deutsch;Laura J. Servis;Jessica D. Payne

  • Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes.

    Jessica D. Payne;Elizabeth A. Kensinger;Erin J. Wamsley;R. Nathan Spreng

  • The Biopsychology of Trauma and Memory

    Jessica D. Payne;Lynn Nadel;Willoughby B. Britton;W. Jake Jacobs

  • A brief nap is beneficial for human route-learning: The role of navigation experience and EEG spectral power.

    Erin J. Wamsley;Matthew A. Tucker;Jessica D. Payne;Robert Stickgold

  • Psychophysiological arousal at encoding leads to reduced reactivity but enhanced emotional memory following sleep

    Tony J. Cunningham;Charles R. Crowell;Sara E. Alger;Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Hippocampal activation during retrieval of spatial context from episodic and semantic memory.

    Siobhan M. Hoscheidt;Lynn Nadel;Jessica Payne;Lee Ryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Elizabeth A. Kensinger Boston College
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold Harvard Medical School
Lynn Nadel
Lynn Nadel University of Arizona
Matthew P. Walker
Matthew P. Walker University of California, Berkeley
W. Jake Jacobs
W. Jake Jacobs University of Arizona
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Lee Ryan
Lee Ryan University of Arizona
Willoughby B. Britton
Willoughby B. Britton Brown University
Richard R. Bootzin
Richard R. Bootzin University of Arizona
Nestor L. Lopez-Duran
Nestor L. Lopez-Duran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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