{"id":2461,"date":"2021-08-25T23:07:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2021-08-25T23:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:07:14","slug":"how-the-insect-central-complex-could-coordinate-multimodal-navigation%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xuelong Sun, Shigang Yue, Michael Mangan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.08.18.456777v1\"><strong>How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.08.18.456777; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.08.18.456777<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;The central complex of the insect midbrain is thought to coordinate insect guidance strategies. Computational models can account for specific behaviours but their applicability across sensory and task domains remains untested. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Here we assess the capacity of our previous model explaining visual navigation to generalise to olfactory navigation and its coordination with other guidance in flies and ants<\/span><\/strong>. We show that fundamental to this capacity is<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> the use of a biologically-realistic neural copy-and-shift mechanism that ensures sensory information is presented in a format compatible with the insect steering circuit regardless of its source<\/span><\/strong>. Moreover, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the same mechanism is shown to transfer cues from unstable\/egocentric to stable\/geocentric frames of reference providing a first account of the mechanism by which foraging insects robustly recover from environmental disturbances<\/span><\/strong>. We propose that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">these circuits can be flexibly repurposed by different insect navigators to address their unique ecological needs<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xuelong Sun, Shigang Yue, Michael Mangan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.08.18.456777v1\"><strong>How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.08.18.456777; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.08.18.456777<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xuelong Sun, Shigang Yue, Michael Mangan. How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation.\u00a0bioRxiv 2021.08.18.456777; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.08.18.456777 Abstract &#8220;The central complex of the insect midbrain is thought to coordinate insect guidance strategies. Computational models can account for specific behaviours but their applicability across sensory and task domains remains untested. Here we assess the capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,419],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}