On the behavioral significance of head direction cells: neural and behavioral dynamics during spatial memory tasks.

Current theories assume that rats use the directional information reflected by head direction (HD) cells when performing spatial tasks. This assumption was assessed by monitoring anterior thalamic HD cell activity and relating it to the subject's behavioral response on 2 spatial memory tasks that te...

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Publicado en:Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 115; no. 2; pp. 285 - 305
Autores principales: Golob, Edward J., Stackman, Robert W., Wong, Andrew C.
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Publicado: American Psychological Association April 2001
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