Active and passive movement are encoded equally by head direction cells in the anterodorsal thalamus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 788-800

  Shinder, Michael E ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Navigation; Sensorimotor integration; Spatial orientation; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MOVEMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERODORSAL THALAMUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN CELL; CELL STIMULATION; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEAD DIRECTION CELL; HEAD MOVEMENT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 80051506371     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01098.2010     Document Type: Article

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