ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2022
Oscillators and servomechanisms in orientation and navigation, and sometimes in cognition.
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- Desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) oscillate and scan more in navigation when the visual scene changes.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Evolutionarily conserved brainstem architecture enables gravity-guided vertical navigation.PLoS biology · 2024Article
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- A different perspective on avian hippocampus function: Visual-spatial perception.Learning & behavior · 2024Article
- Temporal foundations of episodic memory.Learning & behavior · 2024Review
- A special issue honoring Ken Cheng: navigating animal minds.Learning & behavior · 2024Article
- Directed retreat and navigational mechanisms in trail following Formica obscuripes.Learning & behavior · 2024Article
- Unpacking the navigation toolbox: insights from comparative cognition.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Oscillators and servomechanisms in navigation and orientation.Communicative & integrative biology · 2024Article
- Inter-turn intervals inCommunicative & integrative biology · 2024Article
- Thoughts from the forest floor: a review of cognition in the slime mould Physarum polycephalum.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Oscillatory extraction behaviour suggests functional attributes of crows' hooked-stick tools.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Hippocampal inactivation during rearing on hind legs impairs spatial memory.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Varieties of visual navigation in insects.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- From representations to servomechanisms to oscillators: my journey in the study of cognition.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Oscillators and servomechanisms in orientation and navigation, and sometimes in cognition.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Navigational mechanisms have been characterized as servomechanisms. A navigational servomechanism specifies a goal state to strive for. Discrepancies between the perceived current state and the goal state specify error. Servomechanisms adjust the course of travel to reduce the error. I now add that navigational servomechanisms work with oscillators, periodic movements of effectors that drive locomotion. I illustrate this concept selectively over a vast range of scales of travel from micrometres in bacteria to thousands of kilometres in sea turtles. The servomechanisms differ in sophistication, with some interrupting forward motion occasionally or changing travel speed in kineses and others adjusting the direction of travel in taxes. I suggest that in other realms of life as well, especially in cognition, servomechanisms work with oscillators.
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