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Head direction cells in the postsubiculum (PoS, also known as dorsal presubiculum) were first described by Ranck et al. [10]. In subsequent work, Taube et al. [14] characterized these cells as having triangular tuning curves: the firing rate drops off linearly from a peak at the preferred direction until it reaches a baseline value. Taube et al. [15] report that PoS cells typically have baseline-to-baseline tuning curve widths of 100°. Similar cells have been found in the anterior thalamic nuclei (ATN) [4, 6, 13]. See Figure 1(b) for a sample PoS tuning curve. These curves can also be modeled very closely by Gaussians with an average standard deviation of approximately 66° [4, 18].
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Elga, A.N., Redish, A.D., Touretzky, D.S. (1997). A Model of the Rodent Head Direction System. In: Bower, J.M. (eds) Computational Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9800-5_97
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