Quantifying location-specific information in the discharge of rat hippocampal place cells

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-135

  Olypher, A V ^a,b   Lansky P ^a   Muller, R U ^c,d   Fenton, A A ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Location specific information; Place cell; Rat hippocampus; Spike count

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; RUNNING; SIMULATION; SPIKE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0042626395     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(03)00123-7     Document Type: Article

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