Navigational mechanisms have been characterized as servomechanisms. A navigational
servomechanism specifies a goal state to strive for. Discrepancies between the perceived …

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 …

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 …

Many insects display lateral oscillations while moving, but how these oscillations are
produced and participate in visual navigation remains unclear. Here, we show that visually …

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 …

Insects can navigate efficiently in both novel and familiar environments, and this requires
flexiblity in how they are guided by sensory cues. A prominent landmark, for example, can …

The learning flights and walks of bees, wasps and ants are precisely coordinated
movements that enable insects to memorise the visual surroundings of their nest or other …

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 …

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 …

Many insects use view-based navigation, or snapshot matching, to return to familiar
locations, or navigate routes. This relies on egocentric memories being matched to current …