When mice use vision to choose their trajectories, a large fraction of parietal cortex activity can be precisely predicted from navigational attributes such as spatial position and heading.
Effective navigation of odor plumes in the wild requires that animals sense multiple temporal aspects of odor signals, which are encoded naturally by neurons in the fly olfactory circuit.
Seren Zhu, Kaushik J Lakshminarasimhan ... Dora E Angelaki
The spatial and temporal patterns of eye movements exhibited by humans in virtual reality reveal how they plan paths when navigating in complex, naturalistic environments.
Efrén Álvarez-Salvado, Angela M Licata ... Katherine I Nagel
A high-throughput behavioral paradigm and computational modeling are used to decompose olfactory navigation in walking Drosophila melanogaster into a set of quantitative relationships between sensory input and motor output.
The copy-and-shift mechanism modelled in the insect central complex facilitates multimodal navigation, providing a general computation model explaining flexible navigation behaviours.
Charlotte Arlt, Roberto Barroso-Luque ... Christopher D Harvey
The areas of the cerebral cortex that are necessary for mice to perform goal-directed navigation differ depending on previous experience in cognitively challenging tasks.
Corey Fernandez, Jiefeng Jiang ... Anthony D Wagner
Mnemonic mechanisms of differentiation and integration within the medial temporal lobe occur concurrently during the learning of local and global environmental knowledge.
Crawling Drosophila larvae and C. elegans exhibit diffusive behavior alongside directed motion, and the dynamics of this navigation can be analyzed with techniques developed in understanding protein folding, using a Markov state model.