Spatial firing of hippocampal place cells in blind rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1818-1826

  Save, Etienne ^a   Cressant, Arnaud ^a   Thinus Blanc, Catherine ^a   Poucet, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Path integration; Place cells; Rat; Spatial learning; Spatial memory; Unit recordings; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION;

EID: 0032031542     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-05-01818.1998     Document Type: Article

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