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ArticleCommunications biology2022

An artificial neural network explains how bats might use vision for navigation.

Aya Goldshtein, Shimon Akrish, Raja Giryes, Yossi Yovel

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Article in Communications biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Aya GoldshteinSchool of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-2291-2222
Shimon AkrishSchool of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
Raja GiryesSchool of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
Yossi YovelSchool of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel. yossiyovel@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-5429-9245

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals navigate using various sensory information to guide their movement. Miniature tracking devices now allow documenting animals' routes with high accuracy. Despite this detailed description of animal movement, how animals translate sensory information to movement is poorly understood. Recent machine learning advances now allow addressing this question with unprecedented statistical learning tools. We harnessed this power to address visual-based navigation in fruit bats. We used machine learning and trained a convolutional neural network to navigate along a bat's route using visual information that would have been available to the real bat, which we collected using a drone. We show that a simple feed-forward network can learn to guide the agent towards a goal based on sensory input, and can generalize its learning both in time and in space. Our analysis suggests how animals could potentially use visual input for navigation and which features might be useful for this purpose.

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ChiropteraAnimalsMachine LearningMovementNeural Networks, ComputerUnmanned Aerial Devices

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PMID36463311
PMCPMC9719490

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