Theory of rodent navigation based on interacting representations of space

Hippocampus

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 247-270

  Touretzky, David S ^a   Redish, A David ^a,b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head direction; Local view; Memory; Path integration; Place cells; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; HEAD; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CUES; DARKNESS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RODENTIA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0029838460     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1996)6:3<247::AID-HIPO4>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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