Grid Cells and Place Cells: An Integrated View of their Navigational and Memory Function

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 763-775

  Sanders, Honi ^a   Rennó Costa, César ^b   Idiart, Marco ^c   Lisman, John ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; COGNITION; CONTROL SYSTEM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; HUMAN; LATERAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MEMORY; MIND TRAVEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL MEMORY; THETA RHYTHM; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURONS; SPATIAL NAVIGATION;

EID: 84961653978     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.10.004     Document Type: Review

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