2026 Laura Lee Colgin: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	35	9096	8401	3833	3471	76	10449

Laura Lee Colgin 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 Laura Lee Colgin sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 887+

This scientist: 76 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Laura Lee Colgin 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 Laura Lee Colgin sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Laura Lee Colgin is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, contributing extensively to the fields of cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, signal processing, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in Laura Lee Colgin's research portfolio include:

Memory and neural mechanisms
Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
Sleep and wakefulness research
Neural dynamics and brain function
Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Olfactory and sensory function studies

A significant portion of their work has been published in journals such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Cognitive Neurodynamics
Translational Psychiatry
Progress in Neurobiology

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Laura Lee Colgin include:

"Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli," 2024, Progress in Neurobiology
"Abnormal patterns of sleep and waking behaviors are accompanied by neocortical oscillation disturbances in an Ank3 mouse model of epilepsy-bipolar disorder comorbidity," 2023, Translational Psychiatry
"Hippocampal oscillatory dynamics in freely behaving rats during exploration of social and non-social stimuli," 2022, Cognitive Neurodynamics
"Hippocampal place cell sequences differ during correct and error trials in a spatial memory task," 2021, Nature Communications
"Impairments in Hippocampal Place Cell Sequences during Errors in Spatial Memory," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators of Laura Lee Colgin include Emma Robson, Nicholas Riveira, Sohmee Kim, Angel Y. Lopez, and Chenguang Zheng. These coauthors have contributed to multiple papers reflecting overlapping research interests.

In 2012, Laura Lee Colgin was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

Frequency of gamma oscillations routes flow of information in the hippocampus

Laura Lee Colgin;Tobias Denninger;Tobias Denninger;Marianne Fyhn;Marianne Fyhn;Torkel Hafting;Torkel Hafting

1620
Citations
Cross-frequency coupling between neuronal oscillations

Ole Jensen;Laura Lee Colgin

1124
Citations
Rhythms of the hippocampal network

Laura Lee Colgin

728
Citations
Mechanisms and Functions of Theta Rhythms

Laura Lee Colgin

675
Citations
Understanding memory through hippocampal remapping

Laura Lee Colgin;Edvard I. Moser;May Britt Moser

586
Citations
Mechanisms of Late-Onset Cognitive Decline after Early-Life Stress

Kristen L. Brunson;Enikö Kramár;Bin Lin;Yuncai Chen

568
Citations
Coordination of entorhinal-hippocampal ensemble activity during associative learning.

Kei M Igarashi;Li Lu;Laura Lee Colgin;May-Britt Moser

483
Citations
Oscillations and hippocampal–prefrontal synchrony

Laura Lee Colgin

462
Citations
Gamma oscillations in the hippocampus.

Laura Lee Colgin;Edvard I. Moser

434
Citations
Spatial representation along the proximodistal axis of CA1

Espen J. Henriksen;Laura Lee Colgin;Carol A. Barnes;Carol A. Barnes;Menno P. Witter

297
Citations
Slow and Fast Gamma Rhythms Coordinate Different Spatial Coding Modes in Hippocampal Place Cells

Kevin Wood Bieri;Katelyn N. Bobbitt;Laura Lee Colgin

269
Citations
Theta-gamma coupling in the entorhinal-hippocampal system.

Laura Lee Colgin

265
Citations
Gamma oscillations in cognitive disorders

Alexandra J Mably;Laura Lee Colgin

244
Citations
Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space.

Georgia M. Alexander;Shannon Farris;Jason R. Pirone;Chenguang Zheng

200
Citations
Spatial Sequence Coding Differs during Slow and Fast Gamma Rhythms in the Hippocampus

Chenguang Zheng;Kevin Wood Bieri;Yi Tse Hsiao;Laura Lee Colgin

189
Citations
Priming of hippocampal population bursts by individual perisomatic-targeting interneurons.

Tommas J. Ellender;Wiebke Nissen;Laura Lee Colgin;Edward O. Mann;Edward O. Mann

173
Citations
Attractor-Map Versus Autoassociation Based Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Network

Laura Lee Colgin;Stefan Leutgeb;Karel Jezek;Jill K. Leutgeb

169
Citations
Long-term potentiation is impaired in middle-aged rats: regional specificity and reversal by adenosine receptor antagonists.

Christopher S. Rex;Enikö A. Kramár;Laura L. Colgin;Bin Lin

152
Citations
Impairments in spatial representations and rhythmic coordination of place cells in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

Alexandra J. Mably;Brian J. Gereke;Dylan T. Jones;Laura Lee Colgin

144
Citations
Long-term potentiation is impaired in rat hippocampal slices that produce spontaneous sharp waves.

Laura Lee Colgin;Don Kubota;Yousheng Jia;Christopher S. Rex

140
Citations
Endogenous waves in hippocampal slices.

Don Kubota;Laura Lee Colgin;Malcolm Casale;Fernando A. Brucher

130
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Lynch University of California, Irvine

Edvard I. Moser Norwegian University of Science and Technology

May-Britt Moser Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Enikö A. Kramár University of California, Irvine

Christine M. Gall University of California, Irvine

Gavin Rumbaugh Scripps Research Institute

Ole Jensen University of Oxford

Ole Paulsen University of Cambridge

Carol A. Barnes University of Arizona

Amy Arai Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

External Links

Personal website of Laura Lee Colgin

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