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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Experience‐dependent modifications of hippocampal place cell firing

   Bostock, Muller and Kubie · Hippocampus · 1991

   Recording hippocampal place cells in rats, the study found that swapping a familiar white wall card for a black one changed firing patterns over time, which the authors link to experience-dependent modification.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, rotating either a white or a black wall card generally rotated place cells' firing fields by the same amount, so both cards controlled where cells fired.“Both the white and black cards had stimulus control over place cell firing; generally, rotation of either card caused an equal rotation of the firing fields present.”
   2. UncheckedWhen a black cue card replaced a white one, most rat place cells initially fired in similar spatial patterns with both cards.“The change was such that the spatial firing patterns of the majority of place cells were similar in the presence of the white and black cards during initial black card exposures.”