Hippocampal place cells can develop distinct representations of two visually identical environments

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-246

  Tanila, Heikki ^a,b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

CA3; Hippocampus; Place cell; Place field; Rat; Spatial learning; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISION;

ANIMALS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033008177     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:3<235::AID-HIPO4>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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