Electrophysiological recording of place cell activity in hippocampal CA1.

• Main Author: Ng, Yi Qiang.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology::Neurobiology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54817
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

More than 40 years ago, O’Keefe & Dostrovsky reported the discovery of place cells which are neurons in the rat hippocampus, believed to be pyramidal cells that show spatial selective activation in certain location of an environment, termed the place field. Since then, place cells have proposed...