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Sharp Tuning of Head Direction and Angular Head Velocity Cells in the Somatosensory Cortex
Advanced Science, 2022 Head direction (HD) cells form a fundamental component in the brain's spatial navigation system and are intricately linked to spatial memory and cognition.
Xiaoyang Long +9 more
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Grid cells are modulated by local head direction [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Neurons with grid firing fields are thought to play important roles in spatial cognition. Here, the authors show that in contrast to assumptions underlying current models and analyses, grid fields are modulated by local head direction; this suggests ...
Klara Gerlei +6 more
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Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells
eLife, 2014 Discrete populations of brain cells signal heading direction, rather like a compass. These ‘head direction’ cells are largely confined to a closely-connected network of sites.
Maciej M Jankowski +6 more
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Head direction cells and the neurophysiological basis for a sense of direction
Progress in Neurobiology, 1998 Animals require two types of fundamental information for accurate navigation: location and directional heading. Current theories hypothesize that animals maintain a neural representation, or cognitive map, of external space in the brain. Whereas cells in the rat hippocampus and parahippocampal regions encode information about location, a second type of
Jeffrey Taube
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Head direction cells: properties and functional significance
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 1996 The strong signal carried by head direction cells in the postsubiculum complements the positional signal carried by hippocampal place cells; together, the directional and positional signals provide the information necessary to permit rats to generate and carry out intelligent, efficient solutions to spatial problems. Our opinion is that the hippocampal
Jeffrey Taube, R U Müller, J B Ranck
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The head-direction signal is generated from two types of head direction cells in brainstem nuclei
Nature CommunicationsHead direction (HD) cells discharge based on an animal’s directional heading. Computational models propose that a ring-attractor network across the connections between the lateral mammillary (LMN) and dorsal tegmental nuclei (DTN) underlies the signal’s ...
Jeffrey S. Taube +7 more
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Retrosplenial and postsubicular head direction cells compared during visual landmark discrimination
Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 2017 Background: Visual landmarks are used by head direction (HD) cells to establish and help update the animal’s representation of head direction, for use in orientation and navigation.
Yave Roberto Lozano +5 more
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Sensors, 2021 Mammals rely on vision and self-motion information in nature to distinguish directions and navigate accurately and stably. Inspired by the mammalian brain neurons to represent the spatial environment, the brain-inspired positioning method based on multi ...
Yudi Chen +5 more
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Micromachines, 2022 Simultaneous monitoring of animal behavior and neuronal activity in the brain enables us to examine the neural underpinnings of behaviors. Conventionally, the neural activity data are buffered, amplified, multiplexed, and then converted from analog to ...
Kaoru Ide, Susumu Takahashi
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A Bio-Inspired 3-D Neural Compass Based on Head Direction Cells
IEEE Access, 2021 Head direction cells (HDCs) in mammals’ brains are thought to provide the sense of direction (function of a compass). They fire when the animal’s head points to a specific orientation.
Baozhong Li, Yanming Liu, Lei Lai
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