Memory use in insect visual navigation

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 542-552

  Collett, Thomas S ^a   Collett, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; BEE; BEHAVIOR; FLYING; INSECT; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HOMING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036636096     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn872     Document Type: Review

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