The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat

1971/11/01 by J. O'Keefe, John O’Keefe, J. Dostrovsky +1 · 6,341 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Art #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Duration (music) #Hippocampus #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Movement (music) #Neural dynamics and brain function #Neuroscience #Perception #Physics #Psychology #Sleep and Wakefulness Research #Spacetime #Spatialization #Time perception

paper · doi:10.1016/0006-8993(71)90358-1

published in Brain Research 34(1), 171-175 (Elsevier BV)

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