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SUBMITTER: Maurer AP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3367321 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maurer Andrew P AP Burke Sara N SN Lipa Peter P Skaggs William E WE Barnes Carol A CA
Hippocampus 20110427 4
Hebb (1949) described a "phase sequence" to be the sequential activation of sets of cell assemblies. Within the hippocampus, cell assemblies have been described as groups of coactive neurons whose place fields overlap. Membership of assemblies in a phase sequence changes systematically as a rat travels through an environment, serving to accelerate the temporal order that place fields are encountered during a single theta cycle. This sweeping forward of network activity ("look ahead"), results in ...[more]