Hippocampal-prefrontal input supports spatial encoding in working memory

Nature

Volumn 522, Issue 7556, 2015, Pages 309-314

  Spellman, Timothy ^a   Rigotti, Mattia ^a,b   Ahmari, Susanne E ^c,d   Fusi, Stefano ^a   Gogos, Joseph A ^a   Gordon, Joshua A ^a,e  

^a Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; COGNITION; MEMORY; RODENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONY; TIMESCALE; VISUAL CUE;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

MUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OPTOGENETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84935034782     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14445     Document Type: Article

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