A sense of direction in human entorhinal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6487-6492

  Jacobs, Joshua ^a   Kahana, Michael J ^a   Ekstrom, Arne D ^b   Mollison, Matthew V ^a   Fried, Itzhak ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Direction; Electrophysiology; Entorhinal cortex; Navigation; Place cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; COGNITION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GAME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE CELL; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING;

ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 77950876687     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911213107     Document Type: Article

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