Jeffrey Steven Taube
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Area of Expertise
Behavioral/cognitive/systems neuroscience,
neurobiology of spatial orientation and navigation,
neural mechanisms of learning and memory,
hippocampus,
electrophysiological recordings of single cells in awake behaving animals
Education
B.G.S. University of Michigan
Ph.D. University of Washington
Publications
Book: Wiener SI, Taube JS (2005) Head Direction Cells and the Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation . MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Butler WN, Smith KS, van der Meer MAA, Taube JS (2017) The head direction signal plays a functional role as a neural compass during navigation. Current Biology 27: 1259-1267. PMID: 28416119
Cullen KE, Taube JS (2017) Our sense of direction: progress, controversies, and challenges. Nature Neuroscience 20: 1465-1473. PMID: 29073639
Valerio S, Taube JS (2016) Head direction cell activity is absent in mice without the horizontal semicircular canals. Journal of Neuroscience 36: 741-754. PMID: 26791205
Winter SS, Clark BJ, Mehlman ML, Taube JS (2015) Passive transport disrupt grid signals in the parahippcampal cortex. Current Biology 25: 2493-2502. PMID: 26387719
Winter SS, Clark BJ, Taube JS (2015) Disruption of the head direction cell network impairs the parahippocampal grid cell signal. Science 347: 870-874. PMID: 25700518
Butler WN, Taube JS (2017) Oscillatory synchrony between head direction cells recorded bilaterally in the anterodorsal thalamic nuclei. Journal of Neurophysiology 117: 1847-1852. PMID: 28250151
Works in Progress
Taube JS , Valerio S, Yoder RM (2012) Is navigation in virtual reality using fMRI really navigation?
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