Visual objects sharpen the representation of head direction (IMAGE)

McGill University

Visual objects sharpen the representation of head direction

Caption

Of all visually
responsive regions, the most objectpreferring
areas belonged to the spatial
navigation system. Electrophysiological
analysis in one of the identified regions,
the postsubiculum, indicated that when
an animal faces a visual landmark, HD
encoding is refined. W, west; N, north;
E, east; S, south.

Credit

Siegenthaler et al

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