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Head direction cell activity and behavior in a navigation task requiring a cognitive mapping strategy

Gary M Muir1, Jeffrey S Taube

  • 1Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences & Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Behavioural Brain Research
|June 29, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Head direction (HD) cells provide directional heading information. However, this study found HD cell signals are not always used by animals for navigation tasks, even when using cognitive mapping.

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