Behavioral correlates of neuronal activity recorded as single-units: Promises and pitfalls as illustrated by the rodent head direction cell signal

Neuromethods

Volumn 54, Issue , 2011, Pages 127-167

  Stackman Jr , Robert W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anterior thalamus; Behavioral correlate; Head direction cell; Hippocampus; Mouse; Neuronal ensemble; Place cell; Postsubiculum; Rat; Single unit; Spatial cognition; Spatial navigation; Video tracking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SIGNALING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAD DIRECTION CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; RODENT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENTIST; PLACE CELL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THALAMUS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 78649644688     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-202-5_6     Document Type: Review

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