Parietal cortex, navigation, and the construction of arbitrary reference frames for spatial information

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-185

  Nitz, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Egocentric; Hippocampus; Navigation; Object centered; Parietal; Place cell; Rat; Recording; Reference frame; Route; Single unit; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HAPLORHINI; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 59649083405     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.08.007     Document Type: Article

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