Neuronal mechanisms underlying the interaction between visual landmarks and path integration in the rat.
Place- and direction-specific firing properties of hippocampal and thalamic neurons are not strongly tied to visual landmarks when a rat is disoriented. These results suggest that rats rely more on path integration mechanisms than on landmarks, until they have learned that the landmarks are stable directional references.
Knierim
J J
JJ
Kudrimoti
H S
HS
McNaughton
B L
BL
D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D013788:Thalamus / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*