Erika Atucha

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

15h-index873citations29works3.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research(21), Memory and Neural Mechanisms(21), Stress Responses and Cortisol(7), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms(5), Neural dynamics and brain function(4)

Publications29 total

Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time
Nature Neuroscience·2025· 3 cited
Phase locking of hippocampal CA3 neurons to distal CA1 theta oscillations selectively predicts memory performance
Cell Reports·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Recalling gist memory depends on CA1 hippocampal neurons for lifetime retention and CA3 neurons for memory precision
Cell Reports·2023· 12 citedOpen Access
Phase-locking of hippocampal CA3 neurons to distal CA1 theta oscillations selectively predicts memory performance
2023Open Access
Recalling Gist Memory Over a Lifetime Depends on CA1 Hippocampal Neurons, Memory Precision on CA3's
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access
Lesion of the hippocampus selectively enhances LEC’s activity during recognition memory based on familiarity
Scientific Reports·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Dendritic Kv4.2 potassium channels selectively mediate spatial pattern separation in the dentate gyrus
iScience·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Lesion of The Hippocampus Selectively Enhances LEC's Activity During Recognition Memory Based On Familiarity
Research Square (Research Square)·2021Open Access
Remembering the gist of an event over a lifetime depends on the hippocampus
2021· 5 citedOpen Access
Imaging and optogenetically manipulating recent and very remote memories reveals that CA1 is required for retrieving gist memories over time and CA3 for memory precision
2020Open Access
Imaging recent to very remote object-in-place memories in the medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex
2020Open Access
In-vivo evidence for proximodistal heterogeneity in hippocampal CA1 and CA3 during non-spatial memory retrieval
2020Open Access
Recognition memory: familiarity signals increase selectively in the lateral entorhinal cortex following hippocampal lesions
2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Single-cell memory trace imaging with immediate-early genes
Journal of Neuroscience Methods·2019· 34 cited
The memory for time and space differentially engages the proximal and distal parts of the hippocampal subfields CA1 and CA3
PLoS Biology·2018· 49 citedOpen Access
Spatial information is preferentially processed by the distal part of CA3: Implication for memory retrieval
Behavioural Brain Research·2018· 21 cited
Spatial information is preferentially processed by the distal part of CA3: implication for memory retrieval
Behavioural Brain Research·2018· 29 cited
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala maintains hippocampus-dependent accuracy of remote memory
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2017· 79 citedOpen Access
Recognition memory: Cellular evidence of a massive contribution of the LEC to familiarity and a lack of involvement of the hippocampal subfields CA1 and CA3
Hippocampus·2017· 20 cited
Imaging a memory trace over half a life-time in the medial temporal lobe reveals a time-limited role of CA3 neurons in retrieval
eLife·2016· 34 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Magdalena Sauvage(19), Benno Roozendaal(9), Shih-Pi Ku(7), Takashi Kitsukawa(6), Raquel Vecchio Fornari(4), Piray Atsak(4), Motoharu Yoshida(4), M. Lippert(4), Romy Wichmann(3), Liv Mahnke(3), Nico Alavi(3), Philippe Demougin(2), Andreas Papassotiropoulos(2), Dominique J.‐F. de Quervain(2), Ioannis Zalachoras(2), René Houtman(2), Joseph K. Belanoff(2), Hazel Hunt(2), Onno C. Meijer(2), James L. McGaugh(2)