Head direction cell activity in mice: Robust directional signal depends on intact otolith organs

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1061-1076

  Yoder, Ryan M ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterodorsal thalamic nucleus; Gravity; Head direction; Mouse; Navigation; Otolith organs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; DARKNESS; ELECTRODE; GRAVITY; HEAD DIRECTION; HEAD MOVEMENT; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECIES COMPARISON; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; TILTING; TIME; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CUES; DARKNESS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59649105274     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1679-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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