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SUBMITTER: Fenton AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2858227 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fenton André A AA Lytton William W WW Barry Jeremy M JM Lenck-Santini Pierre-Pascal PP Zinyuk Larissa E LE Kubík Stepan S Bures Jan J Poucet Bruno B Muller Robert U RU Olypher Andrey V AV
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20100301 13
Hippocampus place cell discharge is an important model system for understanding cognition, but evidence is missing that the place code is under the kind of dynamic attentional control characterized in primates as selective activation of one neural representation and suppression of another, competing representation. We investigated the apparent noise ("overdispersion") in the CA1 place code, hypothesizing that overdispersion results from discharge fluctuations as spatial attention alternates betw ...[more]