Place field dynamics and directionality in a spatial memory task

Brain Research

Volumn 783, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 249-261

  Martin, Patrick D ^a   O'Keefe, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directional firing; Hierarchical cluster analysis; Hippocampus; Place field; Polynomial surface; Single unit; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031886822     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01369-3     Document Type: Article

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