Ontogeny of neural circuits underlying spatial memory in the rat

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue MARCH, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Ainge, James A ^a   Langston, Rosamund F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Grid cell; Head direction cell; Hippocampus; Memory and learning; Place cell; Postnatal development; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; ONTOGENY; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84858197120     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00008     Document Type: Review

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