Biomaterial Database

Place Cells: Knowing Where You Are Depends on Knowing Where You're Heading. 2017

Shane M O'Mara

Insitute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland. Electronic address: shane.omara@tcd.ie.

Knowing where you are and knowing where you are heading are both necessary for navigation. Does knowing where you are depend on knowing where you are heading, or is it the other way around? A new study suggests that knowing where you are heading allows you to know where you are.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D006624	Hippocampus	A curved elevation of GRAY MATTER extending the entire length of the floor of the TEMPORAL HORN of the LATERAL VENTRICLE (see also TEMPORAL LOBE). The hippocampus proper, subiculum, and DENTATE GYRUS constitute the hippocampal formation. Sometimes authors include the ENTORHINAL CORTEX in the hippocampal formation.	Ammon Horn,Cornu Ammonis,Hippocampal Formation,Subiculum,Ammon's Horn,Hippocampus Proper,Ammons Horn,Formation, Hippocampal,Formations, Hippocampal,Hippocampal Formations,Hippocampus Propers,Horn, Ammon,Horn, Ammon's,Proper, Hippocampus,Propers, Hippocampus,Subiculums
D000071037	Place Cells	Pyramidal neurons in the HIPPOCAMPUS that play a role in cognitive representation of a specific location within a space.	Hippocampal Place Cells,Cell, Hippocampal Place,Cell, Place,Cells, Hippocampal Place,Cells, Place,Hippocampal Place Cell,Place Cell,Place Cell, Hippocampal,Place Cells, Hippocampal