No need for a cognitive map: Decentralized memory for insect navigation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Cruse, Holk ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^b,c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; ANIMALS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FOOD PRODUCTS; INTEGRATION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH; COGNITIVE MAPS; DECENTRALISED; HONEY BEE; INFORMATION CONCERNING; LATERAL INHIBITION NETWORKS; MEMORY ELEMENT; MEMORY SYSTEMS; PATH INTEGRATION; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECENTRALIZATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PROCESS MODEL; ANIMAL; APPETITE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953654331     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002009     Document Type: Article

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