Place cells on a maze encode routes rather than destinations

Hippocampal place cells fire at different rates when a rodent runs through a given location on its way to different destinations. However, it is unclear whether such firing represents the animal’s intended destination or the execution of a specific trajectory. To distinguish between these possibilit...

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Main Authors: Roddy M Grieves, Emma R Wood, Paul A Dudchenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-06-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/15986