title: Recognition of egocentric and allocentric visual and auditory space by neurons in the hippocampus of monkeys.
abstract: Neuronal activity in the hippocampus was recorded in the awake monkey during presentation of visual and auditory stimuli from various directions. About 10% of the neurons coded visual and/or auditory information from unique directions. Some of these neurons were stimulus-selective, and others were not. Three types of neurons were identified by rotating the animals: egocentric and allocentric, and indeterminate. The results are consistent with a role of the hippocampus in spatial memory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D008251:Macaca / Q000502:physiology*; D013017:Sound Localization; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*