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ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2020

A motion compensation treadmill for untethered wood ants (

Roman Goulard, Cornelia Buehlmann, Jeremy E Niven, Paul Graham, Barbara Webb

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Article in The Journal of experimental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Roman GoulardSchool of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK romangoulard@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9602-2786
Cornelia BuehlmannUniversity of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7786-5254
Jeremy E NivenUniversity of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.
Paul GrahamUniversity of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.
Barbara WebbSchool of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R005036/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The natural scale of insect navigation during foraging makes it challenging to study under controlled conditions. Virtual reality and trackball setups have offered experimental control over visual environments while studying tethered insects, but potential limitations and confounds introduced by tethering motivates the development of alternative untethered solutions. In this paper, we validate the use of a motion compensator (or 'treadmill') to study visually driven behaviour of freely moving wood ants (

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AntsAnimalsMemoryOrientationOrientation, SpatialWalkingAssociative learningInsectsMotion compensatorNavigationTreadmillUntetheredVisual memory

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PMID33443039
PMCPMC7774907

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