A model of ant route navigation driven by scene familiarity

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Baddeley, Bart ^a   Graham, Paul ^a   Husbands, Philip ^a   Philippides, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION;

CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; LEARN+; MECHANISTICS; NAVIGATION STRATEGIES; PROPERTY; ROUTE GUIDANCE; ROUTE NAVIGATION; SIMPLE++; VIEWING DIRECTIONS; WAYPOINTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ANT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; ROUTE NAVIGATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LOCOMOTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84857494907     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002336     Document Type: Article

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