The place preference task: A new tool for studying the relation between behavior and place cell activity in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 273-284

  Rossier, Jérôme ^a,d   Schenk, Françoise ^a   Kaminsky, Yulii ^a,b   Bures, Jan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DARKNESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033913926     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.2.273     Document Type: Article

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