Weighted cue integration in the rodent head direction system.

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How the brain combines information from different sensory modalities and of differing reliability is an important and still-unanswered question. Using the head direction (HD) system as a model, we explored the resolution of conflicts between landmarks and background cues. Sensory cue integration models predict averaging of the two cues, whereas attractor models predict capture of the signal by the dominant cue. We found that a visual landmark mostly captured the HD signal at low conflicts: ho...

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Authors: Knight, R; Piette, C; Page, H; Walters, D; Marozzi, E

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
• Volume: 369
• Issue: 1635
• Pages: 20120512
• Publication date: 2014-02-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0512
• EISSN: 1471-2970
• ISSN: 0962-8436
• Language: English
• Keywords: Cues; Histocytochemistry; Models, Neurological; Video Recording; Evoked Potentials; Motion Perception; Animals; Neurons; Brain; Male; Rats; Spatial Behavior