Phase Coding By Grid Cells In Unconstrained Environments: Two-Dimensional Phase Precession

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2526-2541

  Climer, Jason R ^a   Newman, Ehren L ^a   Hasselmo, Michael E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medial entorhinal cortex; Oscillatory interference; Rat; Spatial navigation; Theta

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRID CELL; HEAD MOVEMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHASE CODING; PHASE PRECESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84882578504     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12256     Document Type: Article

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