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Jeffrey Steven Taube

Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Departments and Programs

  • Psychological and Brain Sciences

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Contact Information

Email: jeffrey.taube@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-1306
Office: 6207 Moore Hall

Education

B.G.S. University of Michigan; Ph.D. University of Washington

Areas 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

Selected Works

  • "The Head Direction Signal: Origins and Sensory-Motor Integration," Annual Review of Neuroscience, 30 (2007) 181-207.
  • Frohardt, R J, J P Bassett, J S and Taube, "Path Integration and Lesions Within the Head Direction Cell Circuit: Comparison Between the Roles of the Anterodorsal Thalamus and Dorsal Tegmental Nucleus," Behavioral Neuroscience, 120 (2006) 135-149.
  • Wiener, S I and J S Taube, Head Direction Cells and the Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation, (2005).
  • Calton, J L and J S Taube, "Degradation of Head Direction Cell Activity during Inverted Locomotion," Journal of Neuroscience, 25 (2005) 2420-2428.
  • Taube, J S, R W Stackman, J L Calton, and C M Oman, "Rat Head Direction Cell Responses in 0-G Parabolic Flight," Journal of Neurophysiology, 92 (2004) 2887-2997.

Current Projects

"Posterior parietal cortex lesions leave head direction cell firing intact;" "Contributions of the medial enthorhinal cortex to head direction cell activity in the anterior thalamus;" "Canal occlusion disrupts head direction specific firing in anterodorsal thalamus"