How desert ants use a visual landmark for guidance along a habitual route

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 11638-11643

  Collett, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Encoding; Insect; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; NEURONAVIGATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DESERT CLIMATE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; LEARNING; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DESERT CLIMATE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; LEARNING; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954944907     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001401107     Document Type: Article

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