ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2017
Spatial Navigation and the Central Complex: Sensory Acquisition, Orientation, and Motor Control.
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- Unexpected Evolutionary Divergence of Tachykinin-Positive Neurons Innervating the Central Complex in Hexapods.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2026Article
- Neurons sensitive to sky compass signals in the brain of the Madeira cockroach Rhyparobia maderae.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- Innate visual attraction before, during and after escape from adverse substrates in carpenter ants.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Neuroarchitecture of the Central Complex in the Madeira Cockroach Rhyparobia maderae: Tangential Neurons.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2024Article
- On growth and form of animal behavior.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Article
- Impact of central complex lesions on innate and learnt visual navigation in ants.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Optic flow based spatial vision in insects.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- Visual learning in tethered bees modifies flight orientation and is impaired by epinastine.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Parasitoid wasp venom re-programs host behavior through downmodulation of brain central complex activity and motor output.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
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- Performance of polarization-sensitive neurons of the locust central complex at different degrees of polarization.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- Insect-Inspired Robots: Bridging Biological and Artificial Systems.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Using your nose to find your way: Ethological comparisons between human and non-human species.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Search Behavior of Individual Foragers Involves Neurotransmitter Systems Characteristic for Social Scouting.Frontiers in insect science · 2021Article
- Pollen feeding inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Parallel Visual Pathways with Topographic versus Nontopographic Organization Connect theiScience · 2020Article
- Matched-filter coding of sky polarization results in an internal sun compass in the brain of the desert locust.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Reverse Engineering and Robotics as Tools for Analyzing Neural Circuits.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2020Article
- Two Compasses in the Central Complex of the Locust Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Inverse Control of Turning Behavior by Dopamine D1 Receptor Signaling in Columnar and Ring Neurons of the Central Complex in Drosophila.Current biology : CB · 2019Article
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Abstract
Cockroaches are scavengers that forage through dark, maze-like environments. Like other foraging animals, for instance rats, they must continually asses their situation to keep track of targets and negotiate barriers. While navigating a complex environment, all animals need to integrate sensory information in order to produce appropriate motor commands. The integrated sensory cues can be used to provide the animal with an environmental and contextual reference frame for the behavior. To successfully reach a goal location, navigational cues continuously derived from sensory inputs have to be utilized in the spatial guidance of motor commands. The sensory processes, contextual and spatial mechanisms, and motor outputs contributing to navigation have been heavily studied in rats. In contrast, many insect studies focused on the sensory and/or motor components of navigation, and our knowledge of the abstract representation of environmental context and spatial information in the insect brain is relatively limited. Recent reports from several laboratories have explored the role of the central complex (CX), a sensorimotor region of the insect brain, in navigational processes by recording the activity of CX neurons in freely-moving insects and in more constrained, experimenter-controlled situations. The results of these studies indicate that the CX participates in processing the temporal and spatial components of sensory cues, and utilizes these cues in creating an internal representation of orientation and context, while also directing motor control. Although these studies led to a better understanding of the CX's role in insect navigation, there are still major voids in the literature regarding the underlying mechanisms and brain regions involved in spatial navigation. The main goal of this review is to place the above listed findings in the wider context of animal navigation by providing an overview of the neural mechanisms of navigation in rats and summarizing and comparing our current knowledge on the CX's role in insect navigation to these processes. By doing so, we aimed to highlight some of the missing puzzle pieces in insect navigation and provide a different perspective for future directions.
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