Comparisons of head direction cell activity in the postsubiculum and anterior thalamus of freely moving rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-108

  Taube, Jeffrey S ^a   Muller, Robert U ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional heading; Limbic system; Motor efference copy; Navigation; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; HEAD; HEAD MOVEMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOTOR NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0031942052     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1998)8:2<87::AID-HIPO1>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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