Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1986
Office Phone: (603) 646-1306, Moore 265
jeffrey.taube@dartmouth.edu
Go to: The Taube Lab Web Page
My laboratory is set up to record the electrical activity from single neurons in the awake, freely-moving animal. This technique enables us to make correlations between a specific cell's firing pattern and the animal's behavior.
To see more publications, visit PubMed from the National Library of Medicine.
Book: Wiener SI, Taube JS (2005) Head Direction Cells and the Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Taube JS, Stackman RW, Calton JL, Oman CM (2004) Rat head direction cell responses in 0-G parabolic flight. Journal of Neurophysiology 92: 2887-2997.
Calton JL, Taube JS (2005) Degradation of head direction cell activity during inverted locomotion. Journal of Neuroscience 25: 2420-2428.
Stackman RW, Golob EJ, Bassett JP, Taube JS (2003) Passive transport disrupts directional path integration by rat head direction cells. Journal of Neurophysiology 90: 2862-2874.
Calton JL, Stackman RW, Goodridge JP, Archey WB, Dudchenko PA, Taube JS (2003) Hippocampal place cell instability following lesions of the head direction cell network. Journal of Neuroscience 23: 9719-9731.
Golob EJ, Stackman RW, Wong AC, Taube JS (2001) On the behavioral significance of head direction cells: Neural and behavioral dynamics during spatial memory tasks. Behavioral Neuroscience 115: 285-304.
Golob EJ, Taube JS (1997) Head direction cells and episodic spatial information in rats without a hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 94: 7645-7650.
