Heading-Vector navigation based on head direction cells and path integration

Hippocampus

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 456-479

  Kubie, John L ^a,b   Fenton, André A ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head direction cell; Hippocampus; Navigation; Place cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEAD; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; SOFTWARE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 66049089153     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20532     Document Type: Article

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