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Hippocampal Place Cell Activity During Overtly Purposeful Behavior

In dissociated reference frames

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The Neural Basis of Navigation

Abstract

Since place cell population activity encodes a geometric, map-like representation of the rat’s current environment, it is reasonable to expect that animals use this representation to navigate. This assumption has received substantial correlative support because permanent or temporary dysfunction of the hippocampal formation disturbs allocentric navigational behavior (Jarrard, 1980; Morris et al., 1982; Sutherland et al., 1982). Unfortunately, the correlation between the existence of hippocampal place cells and the dependence on an intact hippocampus for optimal allothetic spatial behavior neither establishes nor elucidates a causal relationship between place cell firing and navigation behavior.

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  1. Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

    André A. Fenton & Jan Bures

  2. Dept. Physiology & Pharmacology SUNY, Downstate Medical Center, USA

    André A. Fenton

  3. Dept. Experimental Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Almería, Spain

    José Manuel Cimadevilla

  4. Dept. Mechanics and Mathematics, Rostov State University, Russia

    Andrey V. Olypher

  5. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

    Malgorzata Wesierska

  6. Centre Europèen des Sciences du Goût -CNRS, France

    Larissa Zinyuk

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Fenton, A.A., Bures, J., Cimadevilla, J.M., Olypher, A.V., Wesierska, M., Zinyuk, L. (2002). Hippocampal Place Cell Activity During Overtly Purposeful Behavior. In: Sharp, P.E. (eds) The Neural Basis of Navigation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0887-8_4

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