On the spatial information used by the neural substrates of navigation

Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive

Volumn 17, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 901-919

  Poucet, Bruno ^a,b   Cressant, Arnaud ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CNRS CRNC   (France)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Navigation; Place cells; Spatial representation; Stimulus control; Unit recordings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000647335     PISSN: 02499185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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