Multistability of cognitive maps in the hippocampus of old rats

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6639, 1997, Pages 272-275

  Barnes, Carol A ^a,b   Suster, Matthew S ^a   Shen, Jiemin ^a   McNaughton, Bruce L ^a  

^a Life Sciences North Building ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030854720     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40859     Document Type: Article

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