Spatial problem solving and hippocamal place cell firing in rats: Control by an internal sense of carried across environments

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-48

  Huxter, John R ^a   Thorpe, Christina M ^b   Martin, Gerard M ^c   Harley, Carolyn W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Direction sense; Hippocampus; Place cell; Rat; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CUES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035959536     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00194-2     Document Type: Article

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