A coupled attractor model of the rodent Head Direction system

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 671-685

  Redish, A David ^a   Elga, Adam N ^b,c   Touretzky, David S ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0001733268     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X_7_4_004     Document Type: Article

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