Still searching for the engram

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 209-222

  Eichenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative cognition; Episodic memory; Memory; Rat; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EMOTION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; EMOTIONS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONS;

EID: 84960112302     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-016-0218-1     Document Type: Review

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