Is there a pilot in the brain? Contribution of the self-positioning system to spatial navigation

Since the discovery of place cells, the hippocampus is thought to be the neural substrate of a cognitive map. The later discovery of head direction cells, grid cells and border cells, as well as of cells with more complex spatial signals, has led to the idea that there is a brain system devoted to p...

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Main Authors: Bruno ePoucet, Franck eChaillan, Bruno eTruchet, Etienne eSave, Francesca eSargolini, Vincent eHok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00292/full