Lateral entorhinal neurons are not spatially selective in cue-rich environments

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1363-1374

  Yoganarasimha, D ^a,d   Rao, Geeta ^a,b   Knierim, James J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Medial entorhinal cortex; Medial temporal lobe; Parahippocampal; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FOOD; FORAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; LATERAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX NEURON; MALE; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CUES; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 82055202887     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20839     Document Type: Article

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