Does the dorsal hippocampus process navigational routes or behavioral context? A single-unit analysis

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 802-812

  Oler, Jonathan A ^a,b   Penley, Stephanie C ^a   Sava, Simona ^a   Markus, Etan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Dorsal hippocampus; Place cells; Re mapping; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 49249096443     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06375.x     Document Type: Article

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