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. 2013 Oct;36(5):550; discussion 571-87.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13000381.

Learning to navigate in a three-dimensional world: from bees to primates

Adrian G Dyer, Marcello G P Rosa
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Learning to navigate in a three-dimensional world: from bees to primates

Adrian G Dyer et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2013 Oct.

Abstract

We discuss the idea that environmental factors influence the neural mechanisms that evolved to enable navigation, and propose that a capacity to learn different spatial relationship rules through experience may contribute to bicoded processing. Recent experiments show that free-flying bees can learn abstract spatial relationships, and we propose that this could be combined with optic flow processing to enable three-dimensional navigation.

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  • Navigating in a three-dimensional world.
    Jeffery KJ, Jovalekic A, Verriotis M, Hayman R. Jeffery KJ, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2013 Oct;36(5):523-43. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X12002476. Behav Brain Sci. 2013. PMID: 24103594 Review.

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