Analysis of the connectional organization of neural systems associated with the hippocampus in rats

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1393, 2000, Pages 55-70

  Burns, Gully A P C ^b   Young, Malcolm P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Corticocortical connections; Head direction cells; Neuroinformatics; Place cells; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 0034728117     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0549     Document Type: Article

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