The effects of disorientation on visual landmark control of head direction cell orientation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 375-380

  Dudchenko, Paul A ^a,b   Goodridge, Jeremy P ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head direction cells; Landmarks; Navigation; Orientation; Place cells; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; HEAD POSITION; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTATION; STIMULUS; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CUES; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; RATS; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030994377     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005707     Document Type: Article

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