Head Direction Cells and the Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation (Hardcover)
暫譯: 頭部方向細胞與空間定向的神經機制 (精裝版)

Description:

Head direction cells -- neurons that fire only when an animal orients its head in a certain direction -- are found in several different brain areas, with different neurons selective for different head orientations; they are influenced by landmarks as well as motor and vestibular information concerning how the head moves through space. These properties suggest that head direction cells play an important role in determining orientation in space and in navigation. Moreover, the prominence, strength, and clarity of head direction signals indicate their importance over the course of evolution and suggest that they can serve as a vital key for understanding brain function. This book presents the latest findings on head direction cells in a comprehensive treatment that will be a valuable reference for students and researchers in the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, computational science, and robotics.

The book begins by presenting head direction cell properties and an anatomical framework of the head direction system. It then looks at the types of sensory and motor information that control head direction cell firing, covering topics including the integration of diverse signals; the relationship between head direction cell activity and an animal's spatial behavior; and spatial and directional orientation in nonhuman primates and humans. The book concludes with a tutorial demonstrating the implementation of the continuous attractor network, a computational model of head direction cells, and an application of this approach for a navigational system for mobile robots.

Sidney I. Wiener is a Research Director at the CNRS Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action at the Collège de France in Paris.

Jeffrey S. Taube is Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: History of the Discovery of Head Direction Cells by James B. Ranck Jr.	xi
	Preface	xv
	Overview by Sidney I. Wiener and Jeffrey S. Taube	xvii
I	REPRESENTATIONS OF DIRECTIONAL ORIENTATION: HEAD DIRECTION CELL PROPERTIES AND ANATOMY	1
1	Regional Distribution and Variation in the Firing Properties of Head Direction Cells Patricia E. Sharp	3
2	Neuroanatomy of Head Direction Cell Circuits David A. Hopkins	17
3	Head Direction Cell Activity: Landmark Control and Responses in Three Dimensions Jeffrey S. Taube	45
4	How Visual Cues Control Preferred Directions in Head Direction Cells Michael B. Zugaro and Sidney I. Wiener	69
5	Head Direction Signal Generation: Ascending and Descending Information Streams Joshua P. Bassett and Jeffrey S. Taube	83
II	INFLUENCE OF VESTIBULAR AND MOTOR CUES ON HEAD DIRECTION CELLS AND PLACE CELLS	111
6	Vestibular and Motor Processing for Head Direction Signals Stefan Glasauer	113
7	Self-Motion Cues and Resolving Intermodality Conflicts: Head Direction Cells, Place Cells, and Behavior Robert W. Stackman and Michael B. Zugaro	137
8	Coupling Between Head Direction Cells and Place Cells: Influences of Landmarks, Self-Motion, and Intrinsic Circuitry James J. Knierim	163
9	Directional Responses in Place Cells Nicolas Brunel and Robert U. Muller	187
III	RELATIONS BETWEEN THE HEAD DIRECTION SYSTEM, SPATIAL ORIENTATION, AND BEHAVIOR	201
10	Head Direction Codes in Hippocampal Afferent and Efferent Systems: What Functions Do They Serve? Sheri J. Mizumori, Corey B. Puryear, Katherine M. Gill and Alex Guazzelli	203
11	What Does the Head Direction Cell System Actually Do? Paul A. Dudchenko, Gary M. Muir, Russell J. Frohardt and Jeffrey S. Taube	221
12	Behavioral Studies of Directional Orientation in Developing and Adult Animals Sidney I. Wiener and Françoise Schenk	247
13	Cognitive Deficits Induced by Lesions of Structures Containing Head Direction Cells John P. Aggleton	275
IV	NEURAL MECHANISMS OF SPATIAL ORIENTATION IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES AND HUMANS	297
14	Head Direction and Spatial View Cells in Primates, and Brain Mechanisms for Path Integration and Episodic Memory Edmund T. Rolls	299
15	Posterior Cortical Processing of Self-Movement Cues: MSTd's Role in Papez's Circuit for Navigation and Orientation Charles J. Duffy, William K. Page and Michael T. Froehler	319
16	Vestibular, Proprioceptive, and Visual Influences on the Perception of Orientation and Self-Motion in Humans Isabelle Israel and William H. Warren	347
17	Head Direction Control during Active Locomotion in Humans Halim Hicheur, Stefan Glasauer, Stéphane Vieilledent and Alain Berthoz	383
V	THEORETICAL STUDIES AND NEURAL NETWORK MODELS OF THE HEAD DIRECTION SYSTEM	409
18	Attractor Network Models of Head Direction Cells David S. Touretzky	411
19	Head Direction Cells and Place Cells in Models for Navigation and Robotic Applications Angelo Arleo and Wulfram Gerstner	433
20	Head Direction Cells and Neural Bases of Spatial Orientation: Sythesis and Future Perspectives Sidney I. Wiener	459
	Contributors	471
	Index	475