Spatial representations of place cells in darkness are supported by path integration and border information

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Sijie ^a   Schönfeld, Fabian ^a   Wiskott, Laurenz ^a   Manahan Vaughan, Denise ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

CA1; Hippocampus; Place cells; Sensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; DARKNESS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PATH INTEGRATION; PLACE CELL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84924592825     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00222     Document Type: Article

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