| Hippocampal place cells acquire location-specific responses to the conditioned stimulus during auditory fear conditioning MAP Moita, S Rosis, Y Zhou, JE LeDoux, HT Blair Neuron 37 (3), 485-497, 2003 | 335 | 2003 |
| Putting fear in its place: remapping of hippocampal place cells during fear conditioning MAP Moita, S Rosis, Y Zhou, JE LeDoux, HT Blair Journal of neuroscience 24 (31), 7015-7023, 2004 | 306 | 2004 |
| Experience modulates vicarious freezing in rats: a model for empathy P Atsak, M Orre, P Bakker, L Cerliani, B Roozendaal, V Gazzola, M Moita, ... PloS one 6 (7), e21855, 2011 | 224 | 2011 |
| The lateral amygdala processes the value of conditioned and unconditioned aversive stimuli HT Blair, F Sotres-Bayon, MAP Moita, JE Ledoux Neuroscience 133 (2), 561-569, 2005 | 151 | 2005 |
| Place and response learning of rats in a Morris water maze: differential effects of fimbria fornix and medial prefrontal cortex lesions JPC de Bruin, MP Moita, HM de Brabander, RN Joosten Neurobiology of learning and memory 75 (2), 164-178, 2001 | 147 | 2001 |
| A-kinase anchoring proteins in amygdala are involved in auditory fear memory MAP Moita, R Lamprecht, K Nader, JE LeDoux Nature neuroscience 5 (9), 837-838, 2002 | 112 | 2002 |
| Prosocial choice in rats depends on food-seeking behavior displayed by recipients C Márquez, SM Rennie, DF Costa, MA Moita Current Biology 25 (13), 1736-1745, 2015 | 109 | 2015 |
| Silence resulting from the cessation of movement signals danger AG Pereira, A Cruz, SQ Lima, MA Moita Current biology 22 (16), R627-R628, 2012 | 96 | 2012 |
| Speed dependent descending control of freezing behavior in Drosophila melanogaster R Zacarias, S Namiki, GM Card, ML Vasconcelos, MA Moita Nature communications 9 (1), 3697, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Discriminative auditory fear learning requires both tuned and nontuned auditory pathways to the amygdala R Antunes, MA Moita Journal of Neuroscience 30 (29), 9782-9787, 2010 | 79 | 2010 |
| Cognitive and motivational requirements for the emergence of cooperation in a rat social game DS Viana, I Gordo, E Sucena, MAP Moita PloS one 5 (1), e8483, 2010 | 79 | 2010 |
| Freezing suppression by oxytocin in central amygdala allows alternate defensive behaviours and mother-pup interactions E Rickenbacher, RE Perry, RM Sullivan, MA Moita Elife 6, e24080, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Is there anybody out there? Neural circuits of threat detection in vertebrates AG Pereira, MA Moita Current opinion in neurobiology 41, 179-187, 2016 | 63 | 2016 |
| Time determines the neural circuit underlying associative fear learning M Guimarãis, A Gregório, A Cruz, N Guyon, MA Moita Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 5, 89, 2011 | 58 | 2011 |
| Associative plasticity in neurons of the lateral amygdala during auditory fear conditioning HT Blair, A Tinkelman, MAP Moita, JE LeDOUX Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 985 (1), 485-487, 2003 | 50 | 2003 |
| Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents C Keysers, E Knapska, MA Moita, V Gazzola Trends in Cognitive Sciences 26 (8), 688-706, 2022 | 48 | 2022 |
| Behavioral and neuronal underpinnings of safety in numbers in fruit flies CH Ferreira, MA Moita Nature communications 11 (1), 4182, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| Freezing displayed by others is a learned cue of danger resulting from co-experiencing own freezing and shock A Cruz, M Heinemans, C Marquez, MA Moita Current biology 30 (6), 1128-1135. e6, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
| Social cognition in the rodent: nothing to be sniffed at SM Rennie, MM Moita, ZF Mainen Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17 (7), 306-307, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| Thalamic, cortical, and amygdala involvement in the processing of a natural sound cue of danger AG Pereira, M Farias, MA Moita PLoS Biology 18 (5), e3000674, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
