Hippocampal place cells demand attention
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Implantation of Chronic Silicon Probes and Recording of Hippocampal Place Cells in an Enriched Treadmill Apparatus
Published on: October 11, 2017
1Centre for the Biology of Memory, NTNU, NO-7489 Trondheim, Norway.
Neuron
|April 20, 2004
Abstract:
Hippocampal representations of the environment are thought to play a fundamental role in the encoding, storage, and retrieval of declarative memory. In this issue of Neuron, Kentros and coworkers show that new hippocampal representations stabilize only when animals are attentive.
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