Firing properties of head direction cells in the rat anterior thalamic nucleus: Dependence on vestibular input

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4349-4358

  Stackman, Robert W ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

angular head velocity; head direction cells; navigation; spatial orientation; thalamus; vestibular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

EID: 0030955464     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-11-04349.1997     Document Type: Article

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