Statistical and information properties of head direction cells

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1026-1037

  Baird, John C ^a,b   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a   Peterson, Damen V ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Psychological Applications   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035434506     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194521     Document Type: Article

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