- Title
- Widespread vestibular activation of the rodent cortex
- Creator
- Rancz, Ede A.; Moya, Javier; Drawitsch, Florian; Brichta, Alan M.; Canals, Santiago; Margrie, Troy W.
- Relation
- Journal of Neuroscience Vol. 35, Issue 15, p. 5926-5934
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1869-14.2015
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Much of our understanding of the neuronal mechanisms of spatial navigation is derived from chronic recordings in rodents in which head-direction, place, and grid cells have all been described. However, despite the proposed importance of self-reference information to these internal representations of space, their congruence with vestibular signaling remains unclear. Here we have undertaken brain-wide functional mapping using both fMRI and electrophysiological methods to directly determine the spatial extent, strength, and time course of vestibular signaling across the rat forebrain. We find distributed activity throughout thalamic, limbic, and particularly primary sensory cortical areas in addition to known head-direction pathways. We also observe activation of frontal regions, including infralimbic and cingulate cortices, indicating integration of vestibular information throughout functionally diverse cortical regions. These whole-brain activity maps therefore suggest a widespread contribution of vestibular signaling to a self-centered framework for multimodal sensorimotor integration in support of movement planning, execution, spatial navigation, and autonomic responses to gravito-inertial changes.
- Subject
- evoked potential; fMRI; rat; self movement; spatial navigation; vestibular cortex
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1338582
- Identifier
- uon:28056
- Identifier
- ISSN:0270-6474
- Rights
- © 2015. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.
- Language
- eng
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