Hippocampal place cells connected by Hebbian synapses can solve spatial problems

Hippocampus

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 709-719

  Muller, Robert U ^a   Stead, Matt ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Graph theory; Hebbian synapses; Navigation; Neural network; Place cells; Spatial problem solving

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL CONTACT; CELL DENSITY; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030485720     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1996)6:6<709::AID-HIPO13>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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