Further study of the control of place cell firing by intra-apparatus objects

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-431

  Cressant, Arnaud ^a   Muller, Robert U ^b   Poucet, Bruno ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CNRS CRNC   (France)

Author keywords

Dorsal hippocampus; Place cells; Rat; Spatial learning; Spatial memory; Unit recordings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032872065     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:4<423::AID-HIPO8>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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