ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2023
Visual navigation: properties, acquisition and use of views.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Updating an allocentric goal from lateralised egocentric visual memories.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Finding a path: local search behavior of Drosophila larvae.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Phobic responses of bull ants (Myrmecia midas) to odours introduced on their foraging route.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
- Ant visual route navigation: How the fine details of behaviour promote successful route performance and convergence.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Lateralised memory networks may explain the use of higher-order visual features in navigating insects.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Intermittent control and retinal optic flow when maintaining a curvilinear path.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Bumblebees increase their learning flight altitude in dense environments.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Path integration and optic flow in flying insects: a review of current evidence.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Review
- Vector-based navigation in desert ants: the significance of path-integration vectors.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
- Coming home: how visually navigating ants (Myrmecia spp.) pinpoint their nest.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Adaptive Route Memory Sequences for Insect-Inspired Visual Route Navigation.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Transcriptomic Signature of Spatial Navigation in Brains of Desert Ants.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Investigating visual navigation using spiking neural network models of the insect mushroom bodies.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- The Accuracy and Precision of Memory for Natural Scenes: A Walk in the Park.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024Article
- Emergent spatial goals in an integrative model of the insect central complex.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Navigation and dance communication in honeybees: a cognitive perspective.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- The potential underlying mechanisms during learning flights.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Panoramic views offer information on heading direction and on location to visually navigating animals. This review covers the properties of panoramic views and the information they provide to navigating animals, irrespective of image representation. Heading direction can be retrieved by alignment matching between memorized and currently experienced views, and a gradient descent in image differences can lead back to the location at which a view was memorized (positional image matching). Central place foraging insects, such as ants, bees and wasps, conduct distinctly choreographed learning walks and learning flights upon first leaving their nest that are likely to be designed to systematically collect scene memories tagged with information provided by path integration on the direction of and the distance to the nest. Equally, traveling along routes, ants have been shown to engage in scanning movements, in particular when routes are unfamiliar, again suggesting a systematic process of acquiring and comparing views. The review discusses what we know and do not know about how view memories are represented in the brain of insects, how they are acquired and how they are subsequently used for traveling along routes and for pinpointing places.
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