Table 2.

Discharge properties of place cells from navigation-trained rats when the arena was stable and in the stationary and rotating frames during rotation (mean ± SEM)

	Stable	Stationary (paired t-test vs. stable)	Rotating (paired t-test vs. stable, paired t-test vs. stationary)
Mean rate (AP/s)	1.23  ± 0.23	1.28  ± 0.21 (t31 = 1.28, P = 0.21)	1.28  ± 0.21 (t31 = 1.28, P = 0.21)
			(t31 = 0, P = 1.0)
Proportion of arena	0.46  ± 0.04	0.53  ± 0.03 (t31 = 3.2, P = 0.003)	0.51  ± 0.03 (t31 = 1.97, P = 0.06)
			(t31 = 2.76, P = 0.01)
Patchiness	3.7  ± 0.53	5.9  ± 0.69 (t31 = 3.8, P = 6 × 10−4)	7.6  ± 0.73 (t31 = 4.84, P = 3 × 10−5)
			(t31 = 2.24, P = 0.03)
Coherence	0.85  ± 0.10	0.93  ± 0.09 (t31 = 0.78, P = 0.43)	0.38  ± 0.04 (t31 = 3.98, P = 4 × 10−4)
			(t31 = 13.6, P = 2 × 10−7)
Information (bits/AP)	1.82  ± 0.16	1.35  ± 0.10 (t31 = 4.09, P = 3 × 10−4)	1.39  ± 0.11 (t31 = 3.96, P = 4 × 10−4)
			(t31 = 0.98, P = 0.34)