Ant navigation: how complex behaviours emerge from mini-brains in interaction with their natural habitats

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Peer reviewed articles (6)

The Central Complex as a Potential Substrate for Vector Based Navigation

Author(s): Florent Le Moël, Thomas Stone, Mathieu Lihoreau, Antoine Wystrach, Barbara Webb
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 10, 2019, ISSN 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00690

How do backward-walking ants (Cataglyphis velox) cope with navigational uncertainty?

Author(s): Sebastian Schwarz, Leo Clement, Evripidis Gkanias, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 164, 2020, Page(s) 133-142, ISSN 0003-3472
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.04.006

Opponent processes in visual memories: A model of attraction and repulsion in navigating insects’ mushroom bodies

Author(s): Florent Le Möel, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 16/2, 2020, Page(s) e1007631, ISSN 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007631

Route-following ants respond to alterations of the view sequence

Author(s): Sebastian Schwarz, Michael Mangan, Barbara Webb, Antoine Wystrach
Published in: The Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 223/14, 2020, Page(s) jeb218701, ISSN 0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.218701

Rapid Aversive and Memory Trace Learning during Route Navigation in Desert Ants

Author(s): Antoine Wystrach, Cornelia Buehlmann, Sebastian Schwarz, Ken Cheng, Paul Graham
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/10, 2020, Page(s) 1927-1933.e2, ISSN 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.082

The role of attractive and repellent scene memories in ant homing ( Myrmecia croslandi )

Author(s): Trevor Murray, Zoltán Kócsi, Hansjürgen Dahmen, Ajay Narendra, Florent Le Möel, Antoine Wystrach, Jochen Zeil
Published in: The Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 223/3, 2020, Page(s) jeb210021, ISSN 0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.210021