Grid cell firing may arise from interference of theta frequency membrane potential oscillations in single neurons

Hippocampus

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1252-1271

  Hasselmo, Michael E ^a   Giocomo, Lisa M ^a   Zilli, Eric A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Field potential; Head direction cells; Memory encoding; Stellate cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THETA RHYTHM; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36448969820     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20374     Document Type: Article

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