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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• BEST, Phillip J
• WHITE, Aaron M
• MINAI, Ali

Titel

Spatial processing in the brain : The activity of hippocampal place cells

Ist Teil von

• Annual review of neuroscience, 2001-01, Vol.24 (1), p.459-486

Ort / Verlag

Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

PBSC : Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The startling discovery by O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (Brain Res. 1971; 34: 171-75) that hippocampal neurons fire selectively in different regions or "place fields" of an environment and the subsequent development of the comprehensive theory by O'Keefe & Nadel (The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1978) that the hippocampus serves as a cognitive map have stimulated a substantial body of literature on the characteristics of hippocampal "place cells" and their relevance for our understanding of the mechanisms by which the brain processes spatial information. This paper reviews the major dimensions of the empirical research on place-cell activity and the development of computational models to explain various characteristics of place fields.