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Five key topics have been reverberating in hippocampal‐entorhinal cortex (EC) research
over the past five decades: episodic and semantic memory, path integration (“dead …

It is often assumed that navigation implies the use, by animals, of landmarks indicating the
location of the goal. However, many animals (including humans) are able to return to the …

Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while
invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made …

Rats treated chronically with the dopamine agonist quinpirole (0.5 mg/kg, twice weekly× 10)
met 5 criteria for performance of compulsive checking. Specifically, in a large open-field with …

Hippocampal recordings show that different place cells fire at different phases during the
same theta oscillation, probably at the peak of different gamma cycles. As the rat moves …

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in
psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and …

Genes and environment are both essential and interdependent determinants of behavioral
responses. Behavioral genetics focuses on the role of genes on behavior. In this article, we …

The hippocampus is thought to have a critical role in episodic memory by incorporating the
sensory input of an experience onto a spatial framework embodied by place cells. Although …

Instinctive defensive behaviors are essential for animal survival. Across the animal kingdom,
there are sensory stimuli that innately represent threat and trigger stereotyped behaviors …