Journal Research Articles

  • Tarcsay, G; Saxena, R; Long, R; Shobe, JL; McNaughton, BL; Ewell, LA (2025). Dentate spikes comprise a continuum of relative input strength from the lateral and medial entorhinal cortex. bioRxiv. [link]

  • Shobe, JL; Ghanbarian, E; Bain, R; Saxena, R; Chandrasekaran, M; et al. (2025). Cognitive enrichment improves spatial memory and alters hippocampal synaptic connectivity in a mouse model for early-life stress. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. [link]

  • Saxena, R; Shobe, JL; Andujo, AM; Ning, W; Anaclet, C; McNaughton, BL (2025). Enriched experience increases reciprocal synaptic connectivity and coding sparsity in higher-order cortex. bioRxiv. [link]

  • Golden, R; Saxena, R; González, OC; Delanois, JE; Kilianski, S; et al. (2025). Interleaved replay of novel and familiar memory traces during slow-wave sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting. bioRxiv. [link]

  • Saxena, R; Shobe, JL; McNaughton, BL (2022). Learning in deep neural networks and brains with similarity-weighted interleaved learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [link]

  • Saxena, R; Barde, W; Deshmukh, SS (2018). Inexpensive, scalable camera system for tracking rats in large spaces. Journal of Neurophysiology. [link]

Review & Preview articles

  • Saxena, R; McNaughton, BL (2025). Bridging neuroscience and AI: Environmental enrichment as a model for forward knowledge transfer in continual learning. arXiv. [link]

  • McNaughton, BL; Saxena, R (2022). Route selection with a cognitive map. Neuron. [link]