The vestibular contribution to the head direction signal and navigation

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Yoder, Ryan M ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Navigation; Otolith organs; Semicircular canals; Spatial orientation; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; CELL TYPE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEAD DIRECTION CELL; HEAD DIRECTION SIGNAL; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; NAVIGATION; NONHUMAN; PLACE CELL; REVIEW; RODENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL SIGNAL; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 84899144033     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00032     Document Type: Review

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