The versatile wayfinder: prefrontal contributions to spatial navigation

EZ Patai, HJ Spiers - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021‏ - cell.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) supports decision-making, goal tracking, and planning. Spatial
navigation is a behavior that taxes these cognitive processes, yet the role of the PFC in …

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 …

Optoelectronic perovskite synapses for neuromorphic computing

F Ma, Y Zhu, Z Xu, Y Liu, X Zheng, S Ju… - Advanced Functional …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Simulating the human brain for neuromorphic computing has attractive prospects in the field
of artificial intelligence. Optoelectronic synapses have been considered to be important …

Individual versus collective cognition in social insects

O Feinerman, A Korman - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017‏ - journals.biologists.com
The concerted responses of eusocial insects to environmental stimuli are often referred to as
collective cognition at the level of the colony. To achieve collective cognition, a group can …

Steering intermediate courses: desert ants combine information from various navigational routines

R Wehner, T Hoinville, H Cruse, K Cheng - Journal of Comparative …, 2016‏ - Springer
A number of systems of navigation have been studied in some detail in insects. These
include path integration, a system that keeps track of the straight-line distance and direction …

The central complex as a potential substrate for vector based navigation

F Le Moël, T Stone, M Lihoreau, A Wystrach… - Frontiers in …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Insects use path integration (PI) to maintain a home vector, but can also store and recall
vector-memories that take them from home to a food location, and even allow them to take …

Combining sky and earth: desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) show weighted integration of celestial and terrestrial cues

ELG Legge, A Wystrach, ML Spetch… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - journals.biologists.com
Insects typically use celestial sources of directional information for path integration, and
terrestrial panoramic information for view-based navigation. Here we set celestial and …

An adaptive cue combination model of human spatial reorientation

Y Xu, T Regier, NS Newcombe - Cognition, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Previous research has proposed an adaptive cue combination view of the development of
human spatial reorientation (Newcombe & Huttenlocher, 2006), whereby information from …

The role of attractive and repellent scene memories in ant homing (Myrmecia croslandi)

T Murray, Z Kócsi, H Dahmen… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - journals.biologists.com
Solitary foraging ants rely on vision when travelling along routes and when pinpointing their
nest. We tethered foragers of Myrmecia croslandi on a trackball and recorded their intended …

[HTML][HTML] How ants use vision when homing backward

S Schwarz, M Mangan, J Zeil, B Webb, A Wystrach - Current Biology, 2017‏ - cell.com
Ants can navigate over long distances between their nest and food sites using visual cues
[1, 2]. Recent studies show that this capacity is undiminished when walking backward while …