Theta-modulated place-by-direction cells in the hippocampal formation in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 38, 2004, Pages 8265-8277

  Cacucci, Francesca ^a   Lever, Colin ^a   Wills, Thomas J ^a   Burgess, Neil ^a,b   O'Keefe, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Maze; Navigation; Orientation; Path integration; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PATH ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THETA MODULATED PLACE BY DIRECTION CELL; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SELECTION BIAS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; TERMINOLOGY; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 4644336012     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2635-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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