Place cells, navigational accuracy, and the human hippocampus

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1373, 1998, Pages 1333-1340

  O'Keefe, John ^a,b   Burgess, Neil ^a,b   Donnett, James G ^a   Jeffery, Kathryn J ^a   Maguire, Eleanor A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Hippocampus; Neural network; Rat; Spatial navigation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 0032578303     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0287     Document Type: Article

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