{"id":1832,"date":"2019-04-14T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T06:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2019-04-14T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T06:20:26","slug":"how-insects-could-store-and-recall-path-integration-vectors-to-follow-food-ward-paths-take-shortcuts-search-at-the-feeder-and-re-calibrate-their-vector-memories-with-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"How insects could store and recall path integration vectors to follow food-ward paths, take shortcuts, search at the feeder and re-calibrate their vector-memories with experience?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le Mo\u00ebl, Florent, Thomas Jonathan Stone, Mathieu Lihoreau, Antoine Wystrach, and Barbara Webb. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2019.00690\/full\"><strong>The central complex as a potential substrate for vector based navigation<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019): 690.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.braininspirednavigation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/041419_0605_Howinsectsc1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fig from Le Mo\u00ebl et al. 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following content is extracted from Le Mo\u00ebl et al. 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Le Mo\u00ebl, Florent, Thomas Jonathan Stone, Mathieu Lihoreau, Antoine Wystrach, and Barbara Webb. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2019.00690\/full\"><strong>The central complex as a potential substrate for vector based navigation<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019): 690.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>Insects use path integration (PI) to maintain a home vector, but can also store and recall vector-memories that take them from home to a food location, and even allow them to take novel shortcuts between food locations.<\/strong> <\/span>The neural circuit of the Central Complex (a brain area that receives compass and optic flow information) forms a plausible substrate for these behaviors. A recent model, grounded in neurophysiological and neuroanatomical data, can account for PI during outbound exploratory routes and the control of steering to return home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here, they <span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>show that minor, hypothetical but neutrally plausible, extensions of this model can additionally explain how insects could store and recall PI vectors to follow food-ward paths, take shortcuts, search at the feeder and re-calibrate their vector-memories with experience.<\/strong> <\/span>In addition, a simple assumption about <span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>how one of multiple vector-memories might be chosen at any point in time can produce the development and maintenance of efficient routes between multiple locations, as observed in bees.<\/strong> <\/span>The central complex circuitry is therefore well-suited to allow for a <span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>rich vector-based navigational repertoire<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For further info, please read the paper Le Mo\u00ebl et al. 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Le Mo\u00ebl, Florent, Thomas Jonathan Stone, Mathieu Lihoreau, Antoine Wystrach, and Barbara Webb. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2019.00690\/full\"><strong>The central complex as a potential substrate for vector based navigation<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019): 690.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Mo\u00ebl, Florent, Thomas Jonathan Stone, Mathieu Lihoreau, Antoine Wystrach, and Barbara Webb. &#8220;The central complex as a potential substrate for vector based navigation.&#8221; Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019): 690. Fig from Le Mo\u00ebl et al. 2019. \u00a0 The following content is extracted from Le Mo\u00ebl et al. 2019. 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