Vestibular information is required for dead reckoning in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 10009-10017

  Wallace, Douglas G ^a   Hines, Dustin J ^a   Pellis, Sergio M ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Food hoarding; Spatial navigation and dead reckoning; Spatial navigation and vestibular system; Vestibular reflexes; Vestibular system and dead reckoning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABYRINTHECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0037111844     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-22-10009.2002     Document Type: Article

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