Characterization of hippocampal CA1 place cells.
In 1971, O’Keefe & Dostrovsky discovered the highly selective firings of hippocampal principal cells when rats were in specific regions within an environment and prompted research on hippocampus role in spatial processing. In this study, rats were pre-trained in a square box prior to surgical im...
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Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
Language: | English |
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2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52330 |