Neuronal activity in the primate hippocampal formation during a conditional association task based on the subject's location

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 15; no. 7; pp. 4952 - 4969
• Main Authors: Eifuku, S, Nishijo, H, Kita, T, Ono, T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Soc Neuroscience 01.07.1995; Society for Neuroscience
• Subjects: Animals; Association; Behavior, Animal - physiology; Conditioning (Psychology); Electrophysiology; Hippocampus - cytology; Hippocampus - physiology; Macaca - physiology; Male; Neurons - physiology; Reaction Time; Space Perception

The hippocampal formation (HF) functions in two domains of memory: spatial and nonspatial associative memory. The HF includes the hippocampus proper, the dentate gyrus, and the subicular complex. Studies of spatial correlates of HF neuronal activity have revealed that a subject's location in sp...