James Knierim PhD

Professor of Neuroscience




Wang C, Chen X, Knieim JJ. Egocentic and allocentric representations of space ni the rodent brain. Curr Opin. Neurobiol. 2019; 60:12-20.

GoodSmith D, Lee H, Neunuebel JP, Song H, Knierim JJ. Dentate gyrus mossy cells share a role in pattern separation with dentate granule cells and proximal CA3 pyramdial cells. J Neurosci. 2019; 39:9570-9584.

Jayakumar RP, Madhav MS, Savelli F, Blair HT, Cowan, NJ, Knierim JJ. Recalibration of path integration in hippocampal place cells. Nature 2019;566:533-537.

Branch A, Monasterio A, Blair G, Knierim JJ, Gallagher M,  Haberman RP. Aged rats with preserved memory dynamically recruit hippocampal inhibition in a local/global cue mismatch environment. Neurobiol Aging 2019; 76:151-161.

Wang C, Chen X, Lee H, Deshmukh SS, Yoganarasimha D, Savelli F, Knierim JJ. Egocentric coding of external items in the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex. Science 2018; 362:945-949.

Tsao A, Sugar J, Lu L, Wang C, Knierim JJ, Moser M-B, Moser EI. Integrating time from experience in lateral entorhinal cortex. Nature 2018; 561:57-62.

Connor CE, Knierim JJ. Integration of objects and space in perception and memory. Nature Neurosci. 2017; 20:1493-1503.

Savelli F, Luck JD, Knierim JJ. Framing of grid cells within and beyond navigation boundaries. eLife 2017;6:e21354.

GoodSmith D, Chen X, Wang C, Kim SH, Song H, Burgalossi A, Christian KM, Knierim JJ. Spatial representations of granule cells and mossy cells of the dentate gyrus. Neuron 2017 93:677-690.

Lee H, Wang C, Deshmukh SS, Knierim JJ. Neural population evidence of functional heterogeneity along the CA3 transverse axis: Pattern completion vs. pattern separation. Neuron 2015; 87:1093-1105.

Monaco JD, Rao G, Roth ED, Knierim JJ. Attentive scanning behavior drives one-trial potentiation of hippocampal place fields. Nature Neurosci. 2014; 17:725-31.

Derdikman D, Knierim JJ (Eds.) Space, Time and Memory in the Hippocampal Formation. 2014 (Springer: New York).

Neunuebel JP, Knierim JJ. CA3 retrieves coherent representations from degraded input: Direct evidence for CA3 pattern completion and dentate gyrus pattern separation. Neuron 2014; 81:416-27.

Neunuebel JP, Yoganarasimh D, Rao G, Knierim JJ. Conflicts between local and global spatial franewords dissociate neural representations of the lateral and medial entorhinal cortex. J Neurosci. 2013;33:9246-58.

Deshmukh SS, Knierim JJ. Influence of local objects on hippocampal representations: Landmark vectors and memory. Hippocampus 2013; 23:253-67.

Neunuebel JP, Knierim JJSpatial firing correlates of physiologically distinct cell types of the rat dentate gyrus. J Neurosci. 2012;32:3848-3858.

Knierim JJ, Zhang K. Attractor dynamics of spatially correlated neural activity in the limbic system. Ann Rev Neurosci. 2012;35:267-286.

Knierim JJ, Hamilton DA. Framing spatial cognition: Neural representations of proximal and distal frames of reference and their roles in navigation. Physiol Rev. 2011;91:1245-1279.

Deshmukh SS, Knierim JJ. Representation of non-spatial and spatial information in the lateral entorhinal cortex. Front Behav Neurosci. 2011;5:69. (doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00069).

Deshmukh SS, Yoganarasimha D, Voicu H, Knierim JJ. Theta modulation in the medial and the lateral entorhinal cortex.  J Neurophysiol. 2010;104:994-1006.

Savelli F, Knierim JJ.  (2010)   Hebbian analysis of the transformation of medial entorhinal grid-cell inputs to hippocampal place fields.  J Neurophysiol. Jun;103(6):3167-83. Epub 2010 Mar 31.

Savelli F, Yoganarasimha D, Knierim JJ. Influence of boundary removal on the spatial representations of the medial entorhinal cortex. Hippocampus 2008;18:1270-1282.

Hargreaves EL, Rao G, Lee I, Knierim JJ. Major dissociation between medial and lateral entorhinal input to dorsal hippocampus. Science 2005; 308:1792-1794.

Guzowski JF, Knierim JJ, Moser EI. Ensemble dynamics of hippocampal subregions CA3 and CA1. Neuron 2004; 44:581-584. 

Lee I, Yoganarasimha D, Rao G, Knierim JJ. Comparison of population coherence of place cells in hippocampal subfields CA1 and CA3. Nature 2004; 430:456-459.