Interaction between the postsubiculum and anterior thalamus in the generation of head direction cell activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 9315-9330

  Goodridge, Jeremy P ^a,b   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamus; Head direction cells; Landmarks; Navigation; Postsubiculum; Presubiculum; Spatial orientation; Visual cues

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030703156     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-23-09315.1997     Document Type: Article

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