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head direction cells: a standalone construct

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Neuroscience

neurons that fire when an animal's head points in one particular direction in the horizontal plane, regardless of where the animal is.

In neuroscience, head direction cells refers to neurons that fire when an animal's head points in one particular direction in the horizontal plane, regardless of where the animal is. This meaning comes from Taube (1990) in The Journal of Neuroscience.[1]

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  1. Taube, J., Muller, R., & Ranck, J. (1990). Head-direction cells recorded from the postsubiculum in freely moving rats. I. Description and quantitative analysis. The Journal of Neuroscience, 10(2), 420-435. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.10-02-00420.1990

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