A lateralised design for the interaction of visual memories and heading representations in navigating ants
Résumé
The navigational skills of ants, bees and wasps represent one of the most baffling examples of the powers of minuscule brains. Insects store long-term memories of the visual scenes they experience 1 , and they use compass cues to build a robust representation of directions 2,3. We know reasonably well how long-term memories are formed, in a brain area called the Mushroom Bodies (MB) 4-8 , as well as how heading representations are formed in another brain area called the Central Complex (CX) 9-12. However, how such memories and heading representations interact to produce powerful navigational behaviours remains unclear 7,13,14 .
Domaines
Neurosciences [q-bio.NC]
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