{"id":2729,"date":"2022-10-19T10:46:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T00:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T00:46:44","slug":"how-does-the-monarch-butterfly-brain-encode-goal-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"How does the monarch butterfly brain encode goal direction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">M. Jerome Beetz, Christian Kraus, Basil el Jundi. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.10.15.512348v1\"><strong>Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain<\/strong><\/a>. bioRxiv 2022.10.15.512348; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2022.10.15.512348<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Neural processing of a navigational goal requires the continuous comparison between the current heading and the intended goal direction<\/span><\/strong>. While the neural basis underlying the current heading is well-studied in insects, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the coding of the goal direction is completely unexplored<\/span><\/strong>. Here, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we identify for the first time neurons that encode goal direction in the brain of a navigating insect, the monarch butterfly<\/span><\/strong>. The spatial tuning of these neurons accurately correlates with the animal&#8217;s goal direction while being unaffected by compass perturbations. Thus, they specifically encode the goal direction similar to goal neurons described in the mammalian brain. Taken together, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">a navigation network based on goal-direction and heading-direction neurons generates steering commands that efficiently guides the monarch butterflies to their migratory goal<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">M. Jerome Beetz, Christian Kraus, Basil el Jundi. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.10.15.512348v1\"><strong>Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain<\/strong><\/a>. bioRxiv 2022.10.15.512348; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2022.10.15.512348<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M. Jerome Beetz, Christian Kraus, Basil el Jundi. Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain. bioRxiv 2022.10.15.512348; doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2022.10.15.512348 Abstract &#8220;Neural processing of a navigational goal requires the continuous comparison between the current heading and the intended goal direction. While the neural basis underlying the current heading is well-studied in insects, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,960,468,346],"tags":[1110,1111,282],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729"}],"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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}