Theta phase precession in rat ventral striatum links place and reward information

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2843-2854

  Van Der Meer, Matthijs A A ^a,b   Redish, A David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CELL POPULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; INFORMATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REWARD; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 79951967897     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4869-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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