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Gary M Muir1, Jeffrey S Taube.
Abstract
Head direction (HD) cells fire in relation to an animal's directional heading. To examine how these cells may be involved in spatial behavior, HD cells were recorded while animals performed a navigation task requiring the use of a cognitive mapping strategy. Results showed no relationship between performance on the task and the directional stability of the HD cell activity. The HD cell signal, therefore, appears to not always be used by the animal to guide its behavior during all navigation tasks.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15219726 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2003.12.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Behav Brain Res ISSN: 0166-4328 Impact factor: 3.332