Image-matching during ant navigation occurs through saccade-like body turns controlled by learned visual features

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

Volumn 107, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 16348-16353

  Lent, David D ^a   Graham, Paul ^a   Collett, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insect; Memory retrieval; Snapshot; View based homing

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; DEPOSIT FEEDER; LUMINANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEURONAVIGATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISUAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; VISION;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; LEARNING; MEMORY; ROTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957981354     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006021107     Document Type: Article

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