Tsodyks MV, Skaggs WE, Sejnowski TJ, McNaughton BL.
Population dynamics and theta rhythm phase precession of hippocampal place cell firing: a spiking neuron model.
Hippocampus. 1996;6(3):271-80.

Jensen O, Lisman JE.
Hippocampal CA3 region predicts memory sequences: accounting for the phase precession of place cells.
Learn Mem. 1996 Sep-Oct;3(2-3):279-87. (scanned version here)

Magee JC.
Dendritic mechanisms of phase precession in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons.
J Neurophysiol. 2001 Jul;86(1):528-32.

Mehta MR, Lee AK, Wilson MA.
Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code.
Nature 2002 Jun 13;417(6890):741-6

Harris KD, Henze DA, Hirase H, Leinekugel X, Dragoi G, Czurko A, Buzsaki G.
Spike train dynamics predicts theta-related phase precession in hippocampal pyramidal cells.
Nature. 2002 Jun 13;417(6890):738-41.

Huhn Z, Orban G, Erdi P, Lengyel M.
Theta oscillation-coupled dendritic spiking integrates inputs on a long time scale.
Hippocampus. 2005 Aug 17; [Epub ahead of print]



Background information on hippocampal theta phase precession is here and in the following papers:

O'Keefe J, Recce ML.
Phase relationship between hippocampal place units and the EEG theta rhythm.
Hippocampus. 1993 Jul;3(3):317-30. (now available)

Skaggs WE, McNaughton BL, Wilson MA, Barnes CA.
Theta phase precession in hippocampal neuronal populations and the compression of temporal sequences.
Hippocampus. 1996;6(2):149-72.

Leibold C, Kempter R.
Memory capacity for sequences in a recurrent network with biological constraints.
Neural Computation 2006, In Press. (new)