Navigating in a three-dimensional world

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 523-543

  Jeffery, Kathryn J ^a   Jovalekic, Aleksandar ^b   Verriotis, Madeleine ^a   Hayman, Robin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ethology; grid cells; head direction cells; hippocampus; navigation; neural encoding; place cells; spatial cognition; three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLIMBING; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEAD MOVEMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MOSAICISM; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; SPACE; TRAVEL; VISION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84885400944     PISSN: 0140525X     EISSN: 14691825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X12002476     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Madeleine Verriotis and Aleksandar Jovalekic contributed equally to this target article.
2. Note that some other part of the animal's brain may be able to deduce, via postural and kinaesthetic mechanisms, the slope of the terrain. The point is that this information is not integrated into the metric fabric of the map itself.