Degradation of head direction cell activity during inverted locomotion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2420-2428

  Calton, Jeffrey L ^a,b   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterodorsal thalamic nucleus; Navigation; Rat; Spatial orientation; Upside down; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 14644432386     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3511-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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