Navigation: Whence Our Sense of Direction?
Behavioral data have long implied our sense of direction derives from global environmental shape; electrophysiological evidence, however, has seemed to imply it derives from salient non-geometric landmarks. Experiments on the re-establishment of place fields in disoriented mice now align the electrophysiological data with the behavioral data.
Psychology and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, 152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, USA. Electronic address: galliste@ruccs.rutgers.edu.
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