Path integration: How the head direction signal maintains and corrects spatial orientation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1445-1453

  Valerio, Stephane ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HEAD POSITION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATH INTEGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; THALAMUS;

EID: 84866738604     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3215     Document Type: Article

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