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Overview

Bruno Poucet is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields within the social sciences and neuroscience.

Their main field of study is Social Sciences, with significant contributions in several subfields including Political Science and International Relations, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist has explored a range of topics across their publications. These topics include:

  • Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Education, sociology, and vocational training
  • Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research

Recent publications by Bruno Poucet demonstrate a focus on neuroscience and philosophical analysis, as illustrated by the following works:

  • "Time as the fourth dimension in the hippocampus" (2020, Progress in Neurobiology)
  • "Dorsal, but not ventral, hippocampal inactivation alters deliberation in rats" (2020, Behavioural Brain Research)
  • "Medial entorhinal cortex lesions induce degradation of CA1 place cell firing stability when self-motion information is used" (2020, Brain and Neuroscience Advances)
  • "Navigation using global or local reference frames in rats with medial and lateral entorhinal cortex lesions" (2021, Behavioural Brain Research)
  • "Esquisse d'une histoire française de la " philosophie générale "" (2020, Le philosophoire)

The frequent publication venues for Bruno Poucet include:

  • Carrefours de l éducation
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Progress in Neurobiology
  • Brain and Neuroscience Advances
  • Le philosophoire

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with several frequent coauthors contributing alongside them. These collaborators include:

  • Alain Panéro
  • Étienne Save
  • Pierre-Yves Jacob
  • Vincent Hok
  • Julien Poitreau

Best Publications

  • Spatial cognitive maps in animals: new hypotheses on their structure and neural mechanisms.

    Bruno Poucet

  • Object exploration and reactions to spatial and nonspatial changes in hooded rats following damage to parietal cortex or hippocampal formation.

    Etienne Save;Bruno Poucet;Nigel Foreman;Marie-Christine Buhot

  • Working memory, response selection, and effortful processing in rats with medial prefrontal lesions

    Sylvie Granon;Catherine Vidal;Catherine Thinus-Blanc;Jean-Pierre Changeux

  • Coding for spatial goals in the prelimbic/infralimbic area of the rat frontal cortex

    V. Hok;E. Save;P. P. Lenck-Santini;B. Poucet

  • Contribution of multiple sensory information to place field stability in hippocampal place cells.

    Etienne Save;Ludek Nerad;Bruno Poucet

  • Failure of Centrally Placed Objects to Control the Firing Fields of Hippocampal Place Cells

    Arnaud Cressant;Robert U. Muller;Bruno Poucet

  • Goal-related activity in hippocampal place cells.

    Vincent Hok;Pierre-Pascal Lenck-Santini;Sébastien Roux;Etienne Save

  • Spatial firing of hippocampal place cells in blind rats.

    Etienne Save;Arnaud Cressant;Catherine Thinus-Blanc;Bruno Poucet

  • Involvement of the hippocampus and associative parietal cortex in the use of proximal and distal landmarks for navigation

    Etienne Save;Bruno Poucet

  • A study of exploratory behavior as an index of spatial knowledge in hamsters

    Bruno Poucet;Nicole Chapuis;Madeleine Durup;Catherine Thinus-Blanc

  • Medial prefrontal lesions in the rat and spatial navigation: evidence for impaired planning.

    Sylvie Granon;Bruno Poucet

  • Cerebellum Shapes Hippocampal Spatial Code

    Christelle Rochefort;Arnaud Arabo;Marion André;Bruno Poucet

  • Object exploration, habituation, and response to a spatial change in rats following septal or medial frontal cortical damage

    Bruno Poucet

  • Attention-Like Modulation of Hippocampus Place Cell Discharge

    André A. Fenton;William W. Lytton;Jeremy M. Barry;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini

  • Nicotinic and muscarinic receptors in the rat prefrontal cortex: Differential roles in working memory, response selection and effortful processing

    S. Granon;B. Poucet;C. Thinus-Blanc;J. P. Changeux

  • Hippocampal-parietal cortical interactions in spatial cognition.

    Etienne Save;Bruno Poucet

  • Landmark use by navigating rats (Rattus norvegicus) contrasting geometric and featural information.

    Simon Benhamou;Bruno Poucet

  • The neuropsychology of spatial cognition in the rat.

    Bruno Poucet;Simon Benhamou

  • Place cells in the ventral hippocampus of rats

    Bruno Poucet;Catherine Thinus-blanc;Robert U. Muller

  • Unstable CA1 place cell representation in rats with entorhinal cortex lesions.

    Tiffany Van Cauter;Bruno Poucet;Etienne Save

Frequent Co-Authors

Etienne Save
Etienne Save Aix-Marseille University
André A. Fenton
André A. Fenton New York University
Nigel Foreman
Nigel Foreman Middlesex University
Serge Laroche
Serge Laroche University of Paris-Saclay
Sabrina Davis
Sabrina Davis Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Pierre Changeux
Jean-Pierre Changeux Institut Pasteur
Sidney I. Wiener
Sidney I. Wiener Collège de France
Huda Akil
Huda Akil University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard J. Roberts
Richard J. Roberts New England Biolabs

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