The place preference task: a new tool for studying the relation between behavior and place cell activity in rats.
This study describes a task that combines random searching with goal directed navigation. The testing was conducted on a circular elevated open field (80 cm in diameter), with an unmarked target area (20 cm in diameter) in the center of 1 of the 4 quadrants. Whenever the rat entered the target are...
| Publicado en: | Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 114; no. 2; pp. 273 - 285 |
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American Psychological Association
April 2000
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