Evidence for the Use of an Internal Sense of Direction in Homing

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 164-169

  van der Meer, Matthijs A A ^a   Richmond, Zoe ^a   Braga, Rodrigo M ^a   Wood, Emma R ^a   Dudchenko, Paul A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

head direction; navigation; path integration; rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTEGRATION; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; HEAD; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77249130805     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018446     Document Type: Article

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