ArticleRoyal Society open science2016
Rotating panoramic view: interaction between visual and olfactory cues in ants.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Combining social and private information: How ants use pheromones and learnt cues to navigate.Learning & behavior · 2026Review
- Directed retreat and navigational mechanisms in trail following Formica obscuripes.Learning & behavior · 2024Article
- Movement during the acquisition of a visual landmark may be necessary for rapid learning in ants.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024Article
- Hard limits to cognitive flexibility: ants can learn to ignore but not avoid pheromone trails.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Does Spatial Navigation Have a Blind-Spot? Visiocentrism Is Not Enough to Explain the Navigational Behavior Comprehensively.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Insects use a navigational toolkit consisting of multiple strategies such as path integration, view-dependent recognition methods and olfactory cues. The question arises as to how directional cues afforded by a visual panorama combine with olfactory cues from a pheromone trail to guide ants towards their nest. We positioned a garden ant Lasius niger on a rotating table, whereon a segment of a pheromone trail relative to the stationary panorama was rotated while the ant walked along the trail towards its nest. The rotational speed of the table (3 r.p.m.) was set so that the table would rotate through about 90° by the time that an ant had walked from the start to the centre of the table. The ant completed a U-turn at about this point and so travelled in a nest-ward direction without leaving the trail. These results suggest that the ants persist on the pheromone trail and use visual input to determine their direction of travel along the trail.
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