Landmark Control and Updating of Self-Movement Cues Are Largely Maintained in Head Direction Cells After Lesions of the Posterior Parietal Cortex

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 827-840

  Calton, Jeffrey L ^a,b   Turner, Carol S ^a   Cyrenne, De Laine M ^a   Lee, Brian R ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Author keywords

anterodorsal thalamic nucleus; navigation; path integration; spatial orientation; vestibular

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DARKNESS; FEMALE; FORAGE; HEAD MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RAT; ROTATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 50849097577     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.4.827     Document Type: Article

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