Phase precession and variable spatial scaling in a periodic attractor map model of medial entorhinal grid cells with realistic after-spike dynamics

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 772-789

  Navratilova, Zaneta ^a,b   Giocomo, Lisa M ^c,d   Fellous, Jean Marc ^b,e   Hasselmo, Michael E ^c   McNaughton, Bruce L ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous attractor neural network; Dead reckoning; Entorhinal stellate cells; Path integration; Place cells

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROSCIENCE; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; STELLATE CELL; SYNAPSE; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NERVE NET; RATS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84858749147     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20939     Document Type: Article

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