Head direction maps remain stable despite grid map fragmentation

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Whitlock, Jonathan R ^a   Derdikman, Dori ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Entorhinal cortex; Grid cells; Head direction cells; Hippocampus; Remapping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE MAP; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FORAGING; GRID CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 84865125046     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00009     Document Type: Article

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