Intrinsic Bipolar Head‐Direction Cells in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex [PDF]
Advanced ScienceHead‐direction (HD) cells are a fundamental component in the hippocampal‐entorhinal circuit for spatial navigation and help maintain an internal sense of direction to anchor the orientation in space. A classical HD cell robustly increases its firing rate
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Retrosplenial and postsubicular head direction cells compared during visual landmark discrimination [PDF]
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.
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Head direction cells use a head-referenced dual-axis updating rule in 3D space [PDF]
Communications BiologyHead direction (HD) cells, comprising a compass signal for the brain’s spatial map, may update their firing during 3D movement by using a ‘dual axis’ (DA) rule that sums head rotation around a local axis and local-axis rotation around the gravity axis ...
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The head-direction signal is generated from two types of head direction cells in brainstem nuclei [PDF]
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 ...
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Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells [PDF]
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.
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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.
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A Positioning Method Based on Place Cells and Head-Direction Cells for Inertial/Visual Brain-Inspired Navigation System [PDF]
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 ...
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Brain and Behavior, 2021 Objective Head direction cell and place cell spatially tuned firing is often anchored to salient visual landmarks on the periphery of a recording environment.
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The Preferred Directions of Conjunctive Grid X Head Direction Cells in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex Are Periodically Organized. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The discovery of speed-modulated grid, head direction, and conjunctive grid x head direction cells in the medial entorhinal cortex has led to the hypothesis that path integration, the updating of one's spatial representation based on movement, may be ...
Alexander Thomas Keinath
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A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells [PDF]
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2019 Head direction (HD) cells, which fire action potentials whenever an animal points its head in a particular direction, are thought to subserve the animal’s sense of spatial orientation.
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