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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Head-direction cells recorded from the postsubiculum in freely moving rats. I. Description and quantitative analysis

   Taube, Muller and Ranck · Journal of Neuroscience · 1990

   Recording from rat postsubiculum neurons in a cylinder, the authors identified head-direction cells that fire at a preferred head direction, with stable tuning over days.

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   1. UncheckedAbout 26% of the recorded postsubiculum neurons in rats fired according to the animal's head direction, regardless of its behaviour, location or trunk position.“Approximately 26% of the cells were classified as head-direction cells because they discharged as a function of the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, independent of the animal's behavior, location, or trunk position.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, each head-direction cell's firing rate, plotted against head direction, was adequately described by a triangular function.“Plots of firing rate versus head direction showed that each firing-rate/head-direction function was adequately described by a triangular function.”
   3. UncheckedIn 24 head-direction cells from 7 rats, the directions that made cells fire most were spread evenly across the full 360-degree circle.“Results from 24 head-direction cells in 7 animals showed an equal distribution of preferred firing directions over a 360 degrees angle.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Hippocampal place units in the freely moving rat: Why they fire where they fire

   O'Keefe and Conway · Experimental Brain Research · 1978

   Recording 34 place units in rat hippocampus across two environments, the authors examined how the cells' firing locations relate to controlled cues, and found some cells respond to single cues and others to combinations.

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   1. UncheckedIn this rat study, all twelve hippocampal cells tested extensively in the curtained maze had place fields tied to the experimenters' controlled cues.“All twelve units tested extensively in the controlled enclosure had place fields related to the controlled cues.”