The head direction signal: Origins and sensory-motor integration

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue , 2007, Pages 181-207

  Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional heading; Landmark; Navigation; Path integration; Place cells; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAMMAL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VESTIBULE;

EID: 34447535992     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.29.051605.112854     Document Type: Review

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