Retrosplenial Cortical Neurons Encode Navigational Cues, Trajectories and Reward Locations During Goal Directed Navigation

• Published in: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) Vol. 27; no. 7; pp. 3713 - 3723
• Main Authors: Vedder, Lindsey C., Miller, Adam M. P., Harrison, Marc B., Smith, David M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.07.2017
• Subjects: Action Potentials - physiology; Analysis of Variance; Animals; Cerebral Cortex - cytology; Cues; Functional Laterality; Goals; Male; Maze Learning - physiology; Neurons - physiology; Original; Rats; Rats, Long-Evans; Reward; Spatial Navigation - physiology; visual cue; cingulate cortex; learning and memory; landmark

The retrosplenial cortex (RSC) plays an important role in memory and spatial navigation. It shares functional similarities with the hippocampus, including the presence of place fields and lesion-induced impairments in spatial navigation, and the RSC is an important source of visual-spatial input to...