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SUBMITTER: Tryon VL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5479754 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tryon Valerie L VL Penner Marsha R MR Heide Shawn W SW King Hunter O HO Larkin Joshua J Mizumori Sheri J Y SJY
Hippocampus 20170317 7
Distinguishing spatial contexts is likely essential for the well-known role of the hippocampus in episodic memory. We studied whether types of hippocampal neural organization thought to underlie context discrimination are impacted by learned economic considerations of choice behavior. Hippocampal place cells and theta activity were recorded as rats performed a maze-based probability discounting task that involved choosing between a small certain reward or a large probabilistic reward. Different ...[more]