Takahashi, Susumu, Takumi Hombe, Sakiko Matsumoto, Kaoru Ide, and Ken Yoda. “Head direction cells in a migratory bird prefer north.” Science Advances 8, no. 5 (2022): eabl6848.
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“Animals exhibit remarkable navigation abilities as if they have an …
Okubo T., Patella P., D’Alessandro I., and Wilson RI. “A Neural Network for Wind-Guided Compass Navigation.” Neuron, 2020, 107, Pp. 1-17
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“Spatial maps in the brain are most accurate when they are linked to external sensory cues. …
Yvette E. Fisher, Jenny Lu, Isabel D’Alessandro & Rachel I. Wilson . Sensorimotor experience remaps visual input to a heading-direction network. Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1772-4
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“In the Drosophila brain, ‘compass’ neurons track the orientation of the body and head …
Heinze, Stanley, Ajay Narendra, and Allen Cheung. “Principles of insect path integration.” Current Biology 28, no. 17 (2018): R1043-R1058.
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Continuously monitoring its position in space relative to a goal is one of the most essential tasks for …
Pegel, Uta, Keram Pfeiffer, Frederick Zittrell, Christine Scholtyssek, and Uwe Homberg. “Two compasses in the central complex of the locust brain.” Journal of Neuroscience 39, no. 16 (2019): 3070-3080.
In the brain of the desert locust, neurons sensitive …
Robin Grob, Pauline N. Fleischmann and Wolfgang Rössler*. Learning to navigate – how desert ants calibrate their compass systems. Neuroforum 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2018-0011
Navigating through the environment is a challenging task that animals cope with on a daily basis. Many …
The excerpt note is about twenty important mechanistic questions related to long-distance animal navigation from Mouritsen, H. (2018).
Mouritsen, H. (2018). Long-distance navigation and magnetoreception in migratory animals. Nature, 558(7708), 50.
Abstract: For centuries, humans have been fascinated by …
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