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A coupled attractor model of the rodent head direction system
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Head direction (HD) cells, abundant in the rat postsubiculum and anterior thalamic nuclei, fire maximally when the rat's head is facing a particular direction. The activity of a population of these cells forms a distributed representation of the animal's current heading. We describe a neural network model that creates a stable, distributed representation of head direction and updates that representation in response to angular velocity information. In contrast to earlier models, our model of the head direction system accurately tracks a series of actual rat head rotations, and, using biologically plausible neurons, it fits the single-cell tuning curves of real HD cells recorded from rats executing those same rotations. The model makes neurophysiological predictions that can be tested using current technologies.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Redish, A. D., Elga, A. N., & Touretzky, D. S.
- Affiliations
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (US)
- Princeton University (US)
- Venue
- Network: Computation in Neural Systems
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1996-01
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 671-685
- ISSN
- 0954-898X (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6536
- OpenAlex
- W2018502805
- Cited by
- 344
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 4.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Network Computation in Neural Systems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Keywords
- head direction cells, attractor networks, postsubiculum, anterior thalamic nuclei, angular velocity, neural network model
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