Learning navigational maps through potentiation and modulation of hippocampal place cells

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-94

  Gerstner, Wulfram ^a,b   Abbott, L F ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Maps; Population coding; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; LOCATION;

CELL ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPAL PLACE CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAP FORMATION; NAVIGATIONAL MAPS; PLACE CELL; POPULATION CODING; SYNAPTIC MODIFICATION; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; TARGET LOCATION;

MODULATION;

ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0031054452     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008820728122     Document Type: Article

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