The neural encoding of self-generated and externally applied movement: Implications for the perception of self-motion and spatial memory

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Cullen, Kathleen E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corollary discharge; Efference copy; Head direction cells; Place cells; Proprioception; Self motion; Sensory coding; Voluntary movement

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN REGION; CELL TYPE; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; MOTION; NECK MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SELF MOTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

EID: 84892585982     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00108     Document Type: Review

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