JEAN-PAUL BANQUET

Place cells are hippocampal pyramidal neurons that discharge strongly in relation to the rat’s location in the environment. We recently reported that many place cells recorded from rats performing place or cue navigation tasks also discharged when they were at the goal location rather than in the primary firing field. Furthermore, subtle differences in discharge timing were found in the two navigation tasks, with activity occurring later in the place task compared to the cue task. Here we tested the possibility that such delayed ∗Corresponding author. 36