Sentence examples for direction cell from inspiring English sources

First, place fields drift in the dark (Quirk et al. 1990), due to cumulative directional errors coming from the head direction cell and path integration systems (Knierim et al. 1995; McNaughton et al. 2006).

In the presence of FAK silencing via small hairpin RNA (shRNA), cell elongation length in the aligned nanofiber direction (cell major axis length) was significantly decreased, while cells still showed preferred orientation along the aligned nanofibers.

In the same direction, cell adhesion can be reduced and avoided over the assessed areas, after 24 hours of culture, showing that the generated material can be a potentially good candidate for biocompatible purposes.

The latter task may be solved by the animal alternating directions (Douglas, 1966), and thus could require the head direction cell system.

These results suggest that the LMN, and potentially the head direction cell system, are not essential for the use of visual landmarks to guide spatial behavior.

Nonetheless, one approach to disrupting the head direction cell system has been to lesion or inactivate the LMN (Vann, 2005, 2011).

The fact that cells exhibit directional firing before eye opening is consistent with data from adult animals showing that head direction cells maintain directional tuning in complete darkness even though the preferred tuning direction drifts over extended time intervals [ 13].

One of the first functions to be expressed in navigating animals is the directional tuning of the head direction cells [ 8, 9].

In contrast to grid cells, head direction cells continued to show the same directional tuning in the two compartments, regardless of experience.

Finally, the coherent drift of head direction cells in rat pups is reminiscent of the maintenance of directional relationships among cell pairs in adult animals [ 14, 18].

In deeper layers of the mEC, as well as in the pre- and para-subiculum, grid cells co-localise with head direction cells and 'conjunctive' cells, which combine grid spatial firing with directional tuning  [29,32].