Failure of centrally placed objects to control the firing fields of hippocampal place cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2531-2542

  Cressant, Arnaud ^a   Muller, Robert U ^b   Poucet, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

dorsal hippocampus; place cells; rat; spatial learning; spatial memory; unit recordings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

EID: 0030977877     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-07-02531.1997     Document Type: Article

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