Maintaining a Cognitive Map in Darkness: The Need to Fuse Boundary Knowledge with Path Integration

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Cheung, Allen ^a   Ball, David ^b   Milford, Michael ^b   Wyeth, Gordon ^b   Wiles, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; MAMMALS; ROBOTS;

BOUNDARY MAPS; COGNITIVE MAPS; INTEGRATION SYSTEMS; MULTI-MODAL; NAVIGATION BEHAVIOR; NEURAL CORRELATE; PATH INTEGRATION; SENSORY DATA; SENSORY INFORMATION; SPATIAL NAVIGATION;

NAVIGATION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DARKNESS; HEAD MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84866136796     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002651     Document Type: Article

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