Main description:

Since the appearance of the John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel book in which they proposed that the hippocampus provides an abstract, internal representation of the animal's environment, considerable conceptual progress in the area of navigational information processing has been achieved.
The purpose of the current work is to consolidate recent data and conceptual insights related to navigational insight processing in a format useful to both practitioners and advanced students in neuroscience.

Contents:

Preface. 1. Sensory Determinants of Hippocampal Place Cell Firing Fields; R.U. Muller, B. Poucet, B. Rivard. 2. Different Hippocampal Place Cell Maps for Different Environments; S. Doboli, A.A. Minai, P.J. Best. 3. The Path-Integration Properties of Hippocampal Place Cells; J.J. Knierim. 4. Hippocampal Place Cell Activity During Overtly Purposeful Behavior (in dissociated reference frames); A.A. Fenton, J. Bures, J.M. Cimadevilla, A.V. Olypher, M. Wesierska, L. Zinyuk. 5. Non-Spatial Correlates of Hippocampal Activity; P.A. Dudchenko, E.R. Wood, H. Eichenbaum. 6. Entorhinal Place Cells: Trajectory Encoding; L.M. Frank, E.N. Brown, M.A. Wilson. 7. Subicular Place Cells Show Similar Firing Fields Across Different Environments: Comparison with Hippocampal Place Cells; P.E. Sharp. 8. Sensory Determinants of Head Direction Cell Activity; J.S. Taube. 9. Functional Organization of the Rat Head-Direction Circuit; H.T. Blair, P.E. Sharp. 10. Hippocampal Spatial Representations and Navigation in Primates; E.T. Rolls. 11. The Bevavioral Implementation of Hippocampal Processing; S.J.Y. Mizumori, W.E. Pratt, B.G. Cooper, A. Guazzelli. 12. The Rodent Navigation Circuit; D.S. Touretzky. 13. The Hippocampus, Wayfinding and Episodic Memory; L. Nadel, J.D. Payne. Index.