Multimodal interactions in insect navigation

C Buehlmann, M Mangan, P Graham - Animal cognition, 2020‏ - Springer
Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that
could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of …

Neural networks for navigation: From connections to computations

RI Wilson - Annual review of neuroscience, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Many animals can navigate toward a goal they cannot see based on an internal
representation of that goal in the brain's spatial maps. These maps are organized around …

Dopamine promotes head direction plasticity during orienting movements

YE Fisher, M Marquis, I D'Alessandro, RI Wilson - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
In neural networks that store information in their connection weights, there is a tradeoff
between sensitivity and stability,. Connections must be plastic to incorporate new …

Sensorimotor experience remaps visual input to a heading-direction network

YE Fisher, J Lu, I D'Alessandro, RI Wilson - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
In the Drosophila brain,'compass' neurons track the orientation of the body and head (the
fly's heading) during navigation,. In the absence of visual cues, the compass neuron network …

A neural circuit for wind-guided olfactory navigation

AMM Matheson, AJ Lanz, AM Medina, AM Licata… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
To navigate towards a food source, animals frequently combine odor cues about source
identity with wind direction cues about source location. Where and how these two cues are …

[HTML][HTML] Connectomic reconstruction predicts visual features used for navigation

D Garner, E Kind, JYH Lai, A Nern, A Zhao, L Houghton… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Many animals use visual information to navigate,,–, but how such information is encoded
and integrated by the navigation system remains incompletely understood. In Drosophila …

Flexible navigational computations in the Drosophila central complex

YE Fisher - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Insects can perform impressive feats of navigation, suggesting a sophisticated sense of
direction and an ability to choose appropriate trajectories toward ethological goals. The …

A neural network for wind-guided compass navigation

TS Okubo, P Patella, I D'Alessandro, RI Wilson - Neuron, 2020‏ - cell.com
Spatial maps in the brain are most accurate when they are linked to external sensory cues.
Here, we show that the compass in the Drosophila brain is linked to the direction of the wind …

Visual navigation: properties, acquisition and use of views

J Zeil - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2023‏ - Springer
Panoramic views offer information on heading direction and on location to visually
navigating animals. This review covers the properties of panoramic views and the …

A decentralised neural model explaining optimal integration of navigational strategies in insects

X Sun, S Yue, M Mangan - Elife, 2020‏ - elifesciences.org
Insect navigation arises from the coordinated action of concurrent guidance systems but the
neural mechanisms through which each functions, and are then coordinated, remains …