The human retrosplenial cortex and thalamus code head direction in a global reference frame

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 6371-6381

  Shine, Jonathan P ^a   Valdés Herrera, José P ^a   Hegarty, Mary ^b   Wolbers, Thomas ^a,c  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Head direction; Human; Navigation; Retrosplenial cortex; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME REPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; THALAMUS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84974800775     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1268-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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