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Spatial representations in the rat

case study or perspective on episodic memory?

Françoise Schenk, Delphine Preissmann, Chiara Sautter

pp. 249-279

Spatial orientation in animals or in men requires memory as an essential feature and may be considered as a complex manifestation emerging from multiple brain structures with the hippocampus at "the crossroad". In this chapter, we present the underlying biological mechanisms of spatial behavior along a contextual and historical dimension, in an ethological perspective. We propose that study of spatial memory in mammals, and more precisely in laboratory rats, sheds some light on the development and evolution of episodic memory.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71978-8_14

Full citation:

Schenk, F. , Preissmann, D. , Sautter, C. (2007)., Spatial representations in the rat: case study or perspective on episodic memory?, in F. Mast & L. Jäncke (eds.), Spatial processing in navigation, imagery and perception, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 249-279.

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