Publications


Xiaojing Chen* , Ning Cheng, Cheng Wang, James J Knierim*
Impaired spatial coding of the hippocampus in a dentate gyrus hypoplasia mouse model. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Feb 4;122(5):e2416214122.

Xiaodong Dua#,* , Chong Zhang# , Yujie Wu#, Jun Ju, Zhe Xu, Xuanyi Li, Yao Liu, Schugofa Ohdah, Oana M Constantin, Yifan Pan, Zhonghua Lu, Cheng Wang, Xiaojing Chen, Christine E Gee, Georg Nagel, Sheng-Tao Hou*, Shiqiang Gao*, Kun Song* Suppression of epileptic seizures by transcranial activation of K+-selective channelrhodopsin. Nature Communications. 2025 Jan 10;16(1):559.
Yue-Qing Zhou#,* , Vyash Puliyadi# , Xiaojing Chen, Joonhee Leo Lee, Lan-Yuan Zhang, James J Knierim*                                                                                     Vector coding and place coding in hippocampus share a common directional signal. Nature Communications. 2024 Dec 5;15(1):10630.
Chenyue Wang#, Hongjiang Yang#, Shijie Chen, Cheng Wang*, Xiaojing Chen*  Early and late place cells during postnatal development of the hippocampus. Nature Communications. 2024 Nov 21;15(1):10075.
Shijie Chen#, Ning Cheng#Xiaojing Chen*, Cheng Wang*                         Integration and competition between space and time in the hippocampus. Neuron. 2024 Nov 6;112(21):3651-3664.e8
Ning Cheng#, Qiqi Dong#, Zhen Zhang#, Li Wang, Xiaojing Chen*, Cheng Wang*                                                                                                           Egocentric processing of items in spines, dendrites, and somas in the retrosplenial cortex. Neuron. 2024 Feb 21;112(4):646-660.e8.
Cheng Wang*, Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim*                                                Egocentric and allocentric representations of space in the rodent brain. 
Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2020 Feb:60:12-20.
Cheng Wang#, Xiaojing Chen#, Heekyung Lee, Sachin S Deshmukh, D Yoganarasimha, Francesco Savelli, James J Knierim*                                                                                                                     Egocentric Coding of External Items in the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex.                    Science. 2018 Nov 23;362(6417):945-949.
Xiaojing Chen, James J Knierim*                                                                                                        It's About Time: Temporal Dynamics of Dentate Gyrus Pattern Separation.                                                                                                                      Neuron. 2018 May 16;98(4):681-683.
Douglas GoodSmith#, Xiaojing Chen#, Cheng Wang, Sang Hoon Kim, Hongjun Song, Andrea Burgalossi, Kimberly M Christian, James J Knierim*                                                                           Spatial representations of granule cells and mossy cells of the dentate gyrus. Neuron. 2017 Feb 8;93(3):677-690.e5.

Ling-jie He#, Nan Liu#, Tian-lin Cheng, Xiao-jing Chen, Yi-ding Li, You-sheng Shu, Zi-long Qiu, Xiao-hui Zhang*
Conditional deletion of Mecp2 in parvalbumin-expressing GABAergic cells results in the absence of critical period plasticity. Nature Communications. 2014 Oct 9:5:5036. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6036.
Xiao-Jing Chen, Malte J Rasch, Guang Chen, Chang-Quan Ye, Si Wu, Xiao-Hui Zhang*                                                                                                          Binocular Input Coincidence Mediates Critical Period Plasticity in the Mouse Primary Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 2014 Feb 19;34(8):2940-55.
Min Chen#, Ting-Jia Lu#, Xiao-Jing Chen, Yang Zhou, Qian Chen, Xiao-Yan Feng, Li Xu, Wen-Hu Duan, Zhi-Qi Xiong*                                                                    Differential roles of NMDA receptor subtypes in ischemic neuronal cell death and ischemic tolerance. Stroke. 2008 Nov 39(11):3042-8.