Navigation through vector addition

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6707, 1998, Pages 161-164

  Etienne, A S ^a   Maurer, R ^a   Berlie, J ^a   Reverdin, B ^a   Rowe, T ^a   Georgakopoulos, J ^a   Seguinot V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; HAMSTER; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DARKNESS; FEMALE; GOALS; LEARNING; LIGHTING; LOCOMOTION; MENTAL PROCESSES; MESOCRICETUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032512052     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24151     Document Type: Article

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