Interactions between idiothetic cues and external landmarks in the control of place cells and head direction cells

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 425-446

  Knierim, James J ^a,b   Kudrimoti, Hemant S ^a   Mcnaughton, Bruce L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0031867828     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.1.425     Document Type: Article

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