Searching for spatial unit firing in the prelimbic area of the rat medial prefrontal cortex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 151-159

  Poucet, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

anatomy; frontal cortex; hippocampus; long term potentiation (LTP); memory; spatial firing; unit recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031055443     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)00144-1     Document Type: Article

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