Which coordinate system for modelling path integration?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 242-261

  Vickerstaff, Robert J ^a,b   Cheung, Allen ^c  

^a AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allothetic; Egocentric; Geocentric; Idiothetic; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COORDINATE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; HOME RANGE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; NAVIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77649337013     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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