Visual landmark information gains control of the head direction signal at the lateral mammillary nuclei

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1354-1367

  Yoder, Ryan M ^a,b   Peck, James R ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Landmark; Mammillary; Navigation; Rat; Spatial orientation; Visual

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERODORSAL THALAMUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CELLS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HEAD DIRECTION CELLS; HISTOLOGY; LANDMARK CONTROL; MAMMILLARY BODY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTSUBICULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL INFORMATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; HEAD; HEAD MOVEMENT; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CUES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; HEAD; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MAMMILLARY BODIES; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84921905361     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1418-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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