Anticipation in the rodent head direction system can be explained by an interaction of head movements and vestibular firing properties

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1883-1897

  Van Der Meer, Matthijs A A ^a,c   Knierim, James J ^b   Yoganarasimha, D ^b   Wood, Emma R ^a   Van Rossum, Mark C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEAD MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SENSORY NERVE; SPIKE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; ROTATION; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 35348877249     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00233.2007     Document Type: Article

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