Diviney, Mairead, Fey, Dirk and Commins, Sean (2013) Hippocampal contribution to vector model hypothesis during cue-dependent navigation. Learning and Memory, 20 (7). pp. 367-378. ISSN 1072-0502
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Abstract
Learning to navigate toward a goal is an essential skill. Place learning is thought to rely on the ability of animals to associate
the location of a goal with surrounding environmental cues. Using the Morris water maze, a task popularly used to examine
place learning, we demonstrate that distal cues provide animals with distance and directional information. We show how
animals use the cues in a visually dependent guidance manner to find the goal. Further, we demonstrate how hippocampal
lesions disrupt this learning mechanism. Our results can be explained through the vector model of navigation built on associative
learning principles rather than evoking a cognitive map.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | The definitive version of this article is available at 10.1101/lm.029272.112 |
Keywords: | Hippocampus; vector model; hypothesis; cue-dependent; navigation; hippocampal lesions; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
Item ID: | 4436 |
Depositing User: | Mairead Diviney |
Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2013 14:31 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Learning and Memory |
Publisher: | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/4436 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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