This review article aims to address common research questions in hexapod robotics. How
can we build intelligent autonomous hexapod robots that can exploit their biomechanics …

Highlights•Studies in social bees have proposed various forms of sophisticated
cognition.•Bees display a variety of cognitive phenomena including attention, social learning …

Sleep is a dynamic process comprising multiple stages, each associated with distinct
electrophysiological properties and potentially serving different functions. While these …

Many animals orient using visual cues, but how a single cue is selected from among many is
poorly understood. Here we show that Drosophila ring neurons—central brain neurons …

Accumulating evidence is supporting the hypothesis that our selective attention is a
manifestation of mechanisms that evolved early in evolution and are shared by many …

Whether animals have subjective experiences about the content of their sensory input, ie,
whether they are aware of stimuli, is a notoriously difficult question to answer. If …

Collectively moving groups of animals rely on the decision-making of locally interacting
individuals in order to maintain swarm cohesion. However, the complex and noisy visual …

The physical basis of consciousness remains one of the most elusive concepts in current
science. One influential conjecture is that consciousness is to do with some form of causality …

Animal navigation is accomplished by a combination of landmark-following and dead
reckoning based on estimates of self motion. Both of these approaches require the encoding …

Awareness or consciousness in the context of stimulus perception can directly be assessed
in well controlled test situations with humans via the persons' reports about their subjective …