Re: MIT research reports rats dream of mazes

From: William Benzon (bbenzon@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 17:12:51 GMT

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on 1/25/01 11:13 AM, Gatherer, D. (Derek) at
D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl wrote:

> What the Neuron paper is _really_ about is not 'neural memes' but the
> spatial receptive fields of nine hippocampal CA1 neurons recorded as the
> animal ran on a circular track.

Is this the paper Derek?

Mehta, M.R., Quirk, M.C. and Wilson, M.A., "Experience Dependant Asymmetric
Shape of Hippocampal Receptive Fields", Neuron, 25:707-715, 2000.

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