J. Dupeyroux et al. 2019 presents a navigation system inspired by desert ants’ navigation behavior, which requires precise and robust sensory modalities.
They tested several ant-inspired solutions to outdoor homing navigation problems on a legged robot using two optical sensors …
Concept cells in the human hippocampus encode the meaning conveyed by stimuli over their perceptual aspects. Baraduc et al. 2019 investigate whether analogous cells in the macaque can form conceptual schemas of spatial environments.
Each day, monkeys were presented …
Place recognition is a complex process involving idiothetic and allothetic information. In mammals, evidence suggests that visual information stemming from the temporal and parietal cortical areas (‘what’ and ‘where’ information) is merged at the level of the entorhinal cortex (EC) …
A latest report about grid cells from Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL. The following is excerpted from the report.
Our ability to navigate the world, and form episodic memories, relies on an accurate representation of the environment around us. …
A summary report of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 on the www.nobelprize.org
The following content is excerpted from the reference -The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Thu. 10 Jan 2019. …
Video from: https://vimeo.com/249492053
Scientists examine the brain and how it works on many different levels, from human interactions to the chemistry of neurotransmitters. This animations compares the scale of the different research subjects.
Made in collaboration with INM-1 of Forschungszentrum …
Some brief introduction about the project ‘Brains on Board: Neuromorphic Control of Flying Robots’
What if we could design an autonomous flying robot with the navigational and learning abilities of a honeybee? Such a computationally and energy-efficient autonomous …
What do animal brains have in common with a swarm of robots?
In an effort to improve robotic swarming algorithms, an interdisciplinary team of scientists will study how the brain allows an animal to navigate and change its route while …
By Chris Edwards
Communications of the ACM, August 2018, Vol. 61 No. 8, Pages 14-16. 10.1145/3231168
Mammalian research has underpinned the key models used in robot development. Analogs of neural networks found in the rat’s brain underpin the most widespread …
The excerpt note is about how combine landmark and self-motion cues for navigation from Campbell et al., 2018.
Campbell, Malcolm G., Samuel A. Ocko, Caitlin S. Mallory, Isabel I. C. Low, Surya Ganguli & Lisa M. Giocomo. Principles governing the …
The excerpt note is about bat navigation from Yovel & Ulanvosky 2017.
Yovel, Yossi, and Nachum Ulanvosky. “1.18 Bat Navigation.” Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference (2017): 333.
Navigation, the capacity to plan and execute a goal-directed path, …
A Nature News Feature report the research story of 3D navigation in Nachum Ulanovsky lab. Titled “100 bats and a long, dark tunnel: one neuroscientist’s quest to unlock the secrets of 3D navigation” published in Nature News at …
The excerpt note is about path integration with continuous attractor network according to McNaughton B. L., et al., 2006.
McNaughton, Bruce L., Francesco P. Battaglia, Ole Jensen, Edvard I. Moser, and May-Britt Moser. “Path integration and the neural basis …
The excerpt note is about spatial cognition in non-horizontal environments by Jeffery K. J. et al., 2013.
Jeffery, Kathryn J., Aleksandar Jovalekic, Madeleine Verriotis, and Robin Hayman. “Navigating in a three-dimensional world.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36, no. …
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