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 …

The neuroethology of ant navigation

T Collett, P Graham, S Heinze - Current Biology, 2025‏ - cell.com
Unlike any other group of animals, all ant species are social: individual ants share the food
they gather with their nestmates and as a consequence they must repeatedly leave their …

CATER: combined animal tracking & environment reconstruction

L Haalck, M Mangan, A Wystrach, L Clement… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Quantifying the behavior of small animals traversing long distances in complex
environments is one of the most difficult tracking scenarios for computer vision. Tiny and low …

Ants integrate proprioception as well as visual context and efference copies to make robust predictions

O Dauzere-Peres, A Wystrach - Nature Communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
Forward models are mechanisms enabling an agent to predict the sensory outcomes of its
actions. They can be implemented through efference copies: copies of motor signals …

Investigating visual navigation using spiking neural network models of the insect mushroom bodies

OO Jesusanmi, AA Amin, N Domcsek… - Frontiers in …, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Ants are capable of learning long visually guided foraging routes with limited neural
resources. The visual scene memory needed for this behaviour is mediated by the …

Emergent spatial goals in an integrative model of the insect central complex

R Goulard, S Heinze, B Webb - PLoS computational biology, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
The insect central complex appears to encode and process spatial information through
vector manipulation. Here, we draw on recent insights into circuit structure to fuse previous …

Intricacies of running a route without success in night-active bull ants (Myrmecia midas).

S Deeti, M Islam, C Freas, T Murray… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
How do ants resolve conflicts between different sets of navigational cues during navigation?
When two cue sets point to diametrically opposite directions, theories predict that animals …

Active oscillations in microscale navigation

KY Wan - Animal Cognition, 2023‏ - Springer
Living organisms routinely navigate their surroundings in search of better conditions, more
food, or to avoid predators. Typically, animals do so by integrating sensory cues from the …

Neurons from pre-motor areas to the mushroom bodies can orchestrate latent visual learning in navigating insects

A Wystrach - Biorxiv, 2023‏ - biorxiv.org
Spatial learning is peculiar. It can occur continuously and stimuli of the world need to be
encoded according to some spatial organisation. Recent evidence showed that insects …

From representations to servomechanisms to oscillators: my journey in the study of cognition

K Cheng - Animal Cognition, 2023‏ - Springer
The study of comparative cognition bloomed in the 1970s and 1980s with a focus on
representations in the heads of animals that undergird what animals can achieve. Even in …