What can the hippocampal representation of environmental geometry tell us about Hebbian learning?

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 87, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 356-372

  Lever, Colin ^a   Burgess, Neil ^a,b   Cacucci, Francesca ^a   Hartley, Tom ^a,b   O'Keefe, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Neural network; Place cell; Remapping; Space

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 0040075943     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-002-0360-z     Document Type: Article

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