Rat anterodorsal thalamic head direction neurons depend upon dynamic visual signals to select anchoring landmark cues

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 530-536

  Zugaro, Michaël B ^a   Arleo, Angelo ^a   Déjean, Cyril ^a   Burguière, Eric ^a   Khamassi, Mehdi ^a   Wiener, Sidney I ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cue control; Dynamic motion parallax; Hippocampus; Limbic system; Single unit recordings; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DISORIENTATION; FORAGE; HEAD POSITION; ILLUMINATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; ROTATION; STROBOSCOPY; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAD; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 3242774373     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03512.x     Document Type: Article

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