Hippocampal signatures of episodic memory: Evidence from single-unit recording studies

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Griffin, Amy L ^a   Hallock, Henry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal hippocampus; Electrophysiology; Hippocampal prefrontal synchrony; Place cell remapping; References; Trajectory coding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84878363358     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00054     Document Type: Article

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