Weighted cue integration in the rodent head direction system

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1635, 2014, Pages

  Knight, Rebecca ^a   Piette, Caitlin E ^a   Page, Hector ^b   Walters, Daniel ^b   Marozzi, Elizabeth ^a   Nardini, Marko ^c   Stringer, Simon ^b   Jeffery, Kathryn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractor dynamics; Head direction cells; Path integration; Sensory cue integration; Vestibular system; Vision

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RODENT; SENSORY SYSTEM; SUBSTRATE; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 84890958197     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0512     Document Type: Article

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