{"id":2569,"date":"2022-02-15T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T03:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2022-02-15T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T03:11:50","slug":"whether-are-some-head-direction-cells-sensitive-to-magnetic-direction-in-a-migratory-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Whether are some head direction cells sensitive to magnetic direction in a migratory bird ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takahashi, Susumu, Takumi Hombe, Sakiko Matsumoto, Kaoru Ide, and Ken Yoda. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.abl6848\"><strong>Head direction cells in a migratory bird prefer north<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Science Advances 8, no. 5 (2022): eabl6848.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;Animals exhibit remarkable navigation abilities as if they have an internal compass. Head direction (HD) cells encoding the animal\u2019s heading azimuth are found in the brain of several animal species; <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the HD cell signals are dependent on the vestibular nuclei, where magnetic responsive cells are present in birds<\/span><\/strong>. However, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">it is difficult to determine whether HD cell signals drive the compass orientation in animals, as they do not necessarily rely on the magnetic compass under all circumstances<\/span><\/strong>. Recording of HD cell activities from the medial pallium of shearwater chicks (Calonectris leucomelas) just before their first migration, during which they strongly rely on compass orientation, revealed that shearwater HD cells prefer a north orientation. The preference remained stable regardless of geolocations and environmental cues, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">suggesting the existence of a magnetic compass regulated by internally generated HD signals<\/span><\/strong>. Our findings <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">provide insight into the integration of the direction and magnetoreception senses<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takahashi, Susumu, Takumi Hombe, Sakiko Matsumoto, Kaoru Ide, and Ken Yoda. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.abl6848\"><strong>Head direction cells in a migratory bird prefer north<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Science Advances 8, no. 5 (2022): eabl6848.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takahashi, Susumu, Takumi Hombe, Sakiko Matsumoto, Kaoru Ide, and Ken Yoda. &#8220;Head direction cells in a migratory bird prefer north.&#8221; Science Advances 8, no. 5 (2022): eabl6848. Abstract &#8220;Animals exhibit remarkable navigation abilities as if they have an internal compass. Head direction (HD) cells encoding the animal\u2019s heading azimuth are found in the brain of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,346,419,519],"tags":[366,984,263,363,982,983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}