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SUBMITTER: Barth AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5978794 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barth Albert M AM Domonkos Andor A Fernandez-Ruiz Antonio A Freund Tamas F TF Varga Viktor V
Cell reports 20180501 6
Animals build a model of their surroundings on the basis of information gathered during exploration. Rearing on the hindlimbs changes the vantage point of the animal, increasing the sampled area of the environment. This environmental knowledge is suggested to be integrated into a cognitive map stored by the hippocampus. Previous studies have found that damage to the hippocampus impairs rearing. Here, we characterize the operational state of the hippocampus during rearing episodes. We observe an ...[more]