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The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map 1971 2026 1989 2007 6.2k
  1. The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map (1978)
    John O’Keefe, Lynn Nadel UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona)
  2. Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions (1982)
    Richard Morris, Paul Garrud et al. Nature
  3. The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat (1971)
    John O’Keefe, Jonathan O. Dostrovsky Brain Research
  4. Phase relationship between hippocampal place units and the EEG theta rhythm (1993)
    John O’Keefe, Michael Recce Hippocampus
  5. The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory (2002)
    Neil Burgess, Eleanor A. Maguire et al. Neuron
  6. Place units in the hippocampus of the freely moving rat (1976)
    John O’Keefe Experimental Neurology
  7. Knowing Where and Getting There: A Human Navigation Network (1998)
    Eleanor A. Maguire, Neil Burgess et al. Science
  8. The contributions of position, direction, and velocity to single unit activity in the hippocampus of freely-moving rats (1983)
    B. L. McNaughton, Carol A. Barnes et al. Experimental Brain Research
  9. Geometric determinants of the place fields of hippocampal neurons (1996)
    John O’Keefe, Neil Burgess Nature
  10. Hippocampal place units in the freely moving rat: Why they fire where they fire (1978)
    John O’Keefe, David Conway Experimental Brain Research
  11. Single unit activity in the rat hippocampus during a spatial memory task (1987)
    John O’Keefe, Andrew Speakman Experimental Brain Research
  12. An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing (2007)
    Neil Burgess, Caswell Barry et al. Hippocampus
  13. Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation (2009)
    Colin Lever, Stephen Burton et al. Journal of Neuroscience
  14. Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells (2003)
    John R. Huxter, Neil Burgess et al. Nature
  15. The stereotrode: A new technique for simultaneous isolation of several single units in the central nervous system from multiple unit records (1983)
    Bruce L. McNaughton, John O’Keefe et al. Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  16. Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Representation of the Local Environment (2005)
    Thomas J. Wills, Colin Lever et al. Science
  17. A Temporoparietal and Prefrontal Network for Retrieving the Spatial Context of Lifelike Events (2001)
    Neil Burgess, Eleanor A. Maguire et al. NeuroImage
  18. A review of the hippocampal place cells (1979)
    John O’Keefe Progress in Neurobiology
  19. Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats (2010)
    Thomas J. Wills, Francesca Cacucci et al. Science
  20. Dual phase and rate coding in hippocampal place cells: Theoretical significance and relationship to entorhinal grid cells (2005)
    John O’Keefe, Neil Burgess Hippocampus
  21. Précis of O'Keefe & Nadel'sThe hippocampus as a cognitive map (1979)
    John O’Keefe, Lynn Nadel Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  22. Space in the brain: how the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition (2013)
    Tom T. Hartley, Colin Lever et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  23. Fornix lesions selectively abolish place learning in the rat (1975)
    John O’Keefe, Lynn Nadel et al. Experimental Neurology
  24. Reversal of morphine and stimulus-produced analgesia by subtotal spinal cord lesions (1977)
    Allan I. Basbaum, N. J. E. Marley et al. Pain

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Phase relationship between hippocampal place units and the EEG theta rhythm
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Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions
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Author Peers

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John O’Keefe 28744 20318 3279 98 35.4k
Edvard I Moser 25525 21023 3086 141 30.8k
May‐Britt Moser 22093 18302 2588 117 26.3k
Bruce L. McNaughton 31232 25036 3473 221 36.5k
Richard Morris 23662 25542 6318 282 44.0k
Howard Eichenbaum 29511 20181 3460 250 36.4k
Lynn Nadel 17303 8452 1496 185 23.8k
Carol A. Barnes 17618 18752 4841 250 30.7k
John P. Aggleton 20829 13796 2013 304 26.8k
Larry R. Squire 43691 19416 4022 416 58.4k
Mortimer Mishkin 25831 9359 1943 246 32.1k

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