Hippocampal place fields are altered by the removal of single visual cues in a distance-dependent manner

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-34

  Hetherington, Phil A ^a   Shapiro, Matthew L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; SELF STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031034603     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.1.20     Document Type: Article

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