Deficits in Landmark Navigation and Path Integration After Lesions of the Interpeduncular Nucleus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 490-503

  Clark, Benjamin J ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

dorsal tegmental nucleus; habenula; head direction cells; navigation; spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABENULA; INTERPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; MAZE TEST; MOLECULAR BEACON; NEURONAVIGATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CUES; DARKNESS; FEMALE; FOOD; MAZE LEARNING; MESENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 58849085763     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015477     Document Type: Article

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