Using digital video techniques to identify correlations between behavior and the activity of single neurons

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-227

  Fenton, André A ^a   Muller, Robert U ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral correlate; digital movie; directional cell; hippocampus; navigation; place cell; single unit; spatial firing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIDEORECORDING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEAD; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEURONS; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030605277     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00082-9     Document Type: Article

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