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John Patrick Aggleton

John Patrick Aggleton

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Neuroscience

D-Index
118
Citations
47616
World Ranking
410
National Ranking
54

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

John Patrick Aggleton is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their work spans several main topics, which include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

John Patrick Aggleton has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science," 2020, British Journal of Psychology
  • "The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system," 2022, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • "Stable Encoding of Visual Cues in the Mouse Retrosplenial Cortex," 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Anterior Thalamic Inputs Are Required for Subiculum Spatial Coding, with Associated Consequences for Hippocampal Spatial Memory," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Deconstructing the Direct Reciprocal Hippocampal-Anterior Thalamic Pathways for Spatial Learning," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Shane M. O'Mara
  • Andrew J. D. Nelson
  • M. Mathiasen
  • Seralynne D. Vann
  • Steliana Yanakieva

Publications have appeared in various prominent venues, with multiple works featured in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Brain and Neuroscience Advances
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Aggleton's research has contributed to understanding neurobiological mechanisms related to memory and spatial coding, often addressing neural pathways and brain connectivity.

Recognition of their work includes election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2012 and as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Episodic memory, amnesia, and the hippocampal–anterior thalamic axis.

    John P. Aggleton;Malcolm W. Brown

  • Recognition memory: what are the roles of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus?

    Malcolm W. Brown;John Patrick Aggleton

  • What does the retrosplenial cortex do

    Seralynne Denise Vann;John Patrick Aggleton;Eleanor A. Maguire

  • The amygdala: Neurobiological aspects of emotion, memory, and mental dysfunction.

    John P. Aggleton

  • Spontaneous object recognition and object location memory in rats: the effects of lesions in the cingulate cortices, the medial prefrontal cortex, the cingulum bundle and the fornix

    Abdelkader Ennaceur;Nick Neave;John P. Aggleton

  • Impaired auditory recognition of fear and anger following bilateral amygdala lesions

    Sophie K. Scott;Andrew W. Young;Andrew J. Calder;Deborah J. Hellawell

  • Cortical and subcortical afferents to the amygdala of the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta)

    J.P. Aggleton;M.J. Burton;R.E. Passingham

  • The cingulum bundle: anatomy, function, and dysfunction

    Emma J. Bubb;Claudia Metzler-Baddeley;John P. Aggleton

  • The Amygdala: a functional analysis

    John Patrick Aggleton

  • Extending the spontaneous preference test of recognition: evidence of object-location and object-context recognition.

    Sophie L. Dix;John P. Aggleton

  • The functional effects of amygdala lesions in humans: A comparison with findings from monkeys.

    John P. Aggleton

  • The effects of hippocampal lesions upon spatial and non-spatial tests of working memory

    John Patrick Aggleton;P. R. Hunt;J. N. P. Rawlins

  • Face processing impairments after amygdalotomy

    A. W. Young;John Patrick Aggleton;D. J. Hellawell;M. Johnson

  • The contribution of the amygdala to normal and abnormal emotional states

    John P. Aggleton

  • Different Contributions of the Hippocampus and Perirhinal Cortex to Recognition Memory

    Huimin Wan;John P. Aggleton;Malcolm W. Brown

  • Interleaving brain systems for episodic and recognition memory

    John Patrick Aggleton;Malcolm W. Brown

  • Hippocampal–anterior thalamic pathways for memory: uncovering a network of direct and indirect actions

    John Patrick Aggleton;Shane M. O'Mara;Seralynne Denise Vann;Nicholas Fraser Wright

  • Neurotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex do not mimic the behavioural effects of fornix transection in the rat

    Abdelkader Ennaceur;Nick Neave;John Patrick Aggleton

  • Amnesia and recognition memory: a re-analysis of psychometric data.

    John Patrick Aggleton;C. Shaw

  • Multiple anatomical systems embedded within the primate medial temporal lobe: Implications for hippocampal function

    John Patrick Aggleton

Frequent Co-Authors

Seralynne Denise Vann
Seralynne Denise Vann Cardiff University
Malcolm W. Brown
Malcolm W. Brown University of Bristol
Shane M. O'Mara
Shane M. O'Mara Trinity College Dublin
Jonathan T. Erichsen
Jonathan T. Erichsen Cardiff University
John M. Pearce
John M. Pearce Cardiff University
Derek K. Jones
Derek K. Jones Cardiff University
Janice L. Muir
Janice L. Muir Cardiff University
Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin National Institutes of Health
Nick Neave
Nick Neave Northumbria University
Richard C. Saunders
Richard C. Saunders National Institutes of Health

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