Spatial firing properties of hippocampal CA1 populations in an environment containing two visually identical regions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 8455-8466

  Skaggs, William E ^a,b   McNaughton, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Ensemble; Hippocampus; Navigation; Place cell; Place field; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPECTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REWARD; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 0032531849     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-20-08455.1998     Document Type: Article

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