The hippocampus as a cognitive graph

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 663-694

  Muller, Robert U ^a,c   Stead, Matt ^a   Pach, Janos ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive map; graph theory; hippocampal long term potentiation; neural applications; place cells; rat navigation, computer model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030014850     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.107.6.663     Document Type: Article

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