Hippocampal place cells, context, and episodic memory

Hippocampus

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 716-729

  Smith, David M ^a   Mizumori, Sheri J Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Discrimination; Hippocampus; Learning; Spatial

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RODENT; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749179032     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20208     Document Type: Article

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