Fractionating dead reckoning: role of the compass, odometer, logbook, and home base establishment in spatial orientation.
Fractionating dead reckoning: role of the compass, odometer, logbook, and home base establishment in spatial orientation.
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分段航位推算:指南针、里程表、航海日志和基地建立在空间定向中的作用。
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10.1007/s00114-008-0410-z
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2008
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Winter,ShawnS
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Wallace,DouglasG;Martin,MeganM;Winter,ShawnS
Rats use multiple sources of information to maintain spatial orientation. Although previous work has focused on rats’ use of environmental cues, a growing number of studies have demonstrated that rats also use self-movement cues to organize navigation. This review examines the extent that kinematic analysis of naturally occurring behavior has provided insight into processes that mediate dead-reckoning-based navigation. This work supports a role for separate systems in processing self-movement cues that converge on the hippocampus. The compass system is involved in deriving directional information from self-movement cues; whereas, the odometer system is involved in deriving distance information from self-movement cues. The hippocampus functions similar to a logbook in that outward path unique information from the compass and odometer is used to derive the direction and distance of a path to the point at which movement was initiated. Finally, home base establishment may function to reset this system after each excursion and anchor environmental cues to self-movement cues. The combination of natural behaviors and kinematic analysis has proven to be a robust paradigm to investigate the neural basis of spatial orientation.