Orbitofrontal cortex encodes memories within value-based schemas and represents contexts that guide memory retrieval

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 8333-8344

  Farovik, Anja ^a   Place, Ryan J ^a   McKenzie, Sam ^a   Porter, Blake ^a   Munro, Catherine E ^a   Eichenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Memory; Orbitofrontal cortex; Rat; Retrieval; Value

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BOOTSTRAPPING; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; EXPERIMENTAL REWARD ADDICTION TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY ENCODING; MEMORY RETRIEVAL; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; REWARD;

ANIMALS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

EID: 84930269015     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0134-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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