Hippocampal Place Cell Instability after Lesions of the Head Direction Cell Network

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 30, 2003, Pages 9719-9731

  Calton, Jeffrey L ^a,b   Stackman, Robert W ^a,c   Goodridge, Jeremy P ^a   Archey, William B ^a   Dudchenko, Paul A ^a,d   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterodorsal thalamic nucleus; Ideothetic; Landmark; Navigation; Path integration; Postsubiculum; Rat; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0242524524     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-30-09719.2003     Document Type: Article

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