Place cells and long-term potentiation in the hippocampus

• Main Authors: Cobar, Luis Fernando, Yuan, Li, Tashiro, Ayumu
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Hippocampus; Place Cell
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84357; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43572
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Place cells show location-specific firing patterns according to an animal’s position in an environment and are thought to contribute to the spatial representation required for self-navigation. Decades of study have extensively characterized the properties of place cells and suggested the involvement...