Intact landmark control and angular path integration by head direction cells in the anterodorsal thalamus after lesions of the medial entorhinal cortex

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 767-782

  Clark, Benjamin J ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamus; Grid cell; Navigation; Orientation; Place cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN INJURY; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 79959543578     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20874     Document Type: Article

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