Hippocampal place cells encode intended destination, and not a discriminative stimulus, in a conditional T-maze task

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 534-543

  Ainge, James A ^a   Tamosiunaite, Minija ^b,c   Wörgötter, Florentin ^b   Dudchenko, Paul A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goals; Memory; Place fields; Spatial cognition; Trajectory encoding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857231805     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20919     Document Type: Article

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