Firing properties of rat lateral mammillary single units: Head direction, head pitch, and angular head velocity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 9020-9037

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

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Angular head velocity; Anterior thalamus; Directional heading; Head direction cell; Head pitch; Limbic system; Mammillary nuclei; Postsubiculum; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HISTOLOGY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAMMILLARY BODY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 0032212279     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-21-09020.1998     Document Type: Article

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