On the behavioral significance of head direction cells: Neural and behavioral dynamics during spatial memory tasks

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 285-304

  Golob, Edward J ^a,b   Stackman, Robert W ^a,c   Wong, Andrew C ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEAD DIRECTION CELL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS;

EID: 0035038127     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.115.2.285     Document Type: Article

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