Is the hippocampus of the rat part of a specialized navigational system?

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 413-422

  Muller, R U ^a   Poucet, B ^b   Fenton, A A ^c   Cressant, A ^b  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0032842987     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1063(1999)9:4<413::aid-hipo7>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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