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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Interactions Between Idiothetic Cues and External Landmarks in the Control of Place Cells and Head Direction Cells

   Knierim, Kudrimoti and McNaughton · Journal of Neurophysiology · 1998

   Rats were given visual landmark directions that conflicted with their internal sense of direction, and the firing of place cells and head direction cells was recorded to see which source took control.

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   1. Unchecked“When the mismatch between the two sources of information was small (45°), the visual landmarks had robust control over the firing properties of place cells; when the mismatch was larger, however, the firing fields of the place cells were altered radically, a…
   2. UncheckedIn rats, visual landmarks controlled head direction cells when conflict with internal cues was small (45°), but internal cues usually won when it was larger.“Similarly, the visual cues had control over the firing properties of head direction cells when the mismatch was small (45°), but the idiothetic input usually predominated over the visual landmarks when the mismatch was larger.”
   3. UncheckedIn rats, when visual landmarks won out after a large mismatch, head direction cells always took some time before following the landmarks.“Under some conditions, when the visual landmarks predominated after a large mismatch, there was always a delay before the visual cues exerted their control over head direction cells.”