Navigational Memories in Ants and Bees: Memory Retrieval When Selecting and Following Routes

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter begins with a brief description of natural routes and then discusses what landmark memories are how they used for guidance. Because the is particularly concerned makes retrieval navigational reliable, it emphasizes recent studies on associative linking or binding that occurs both between separate components memory memories. An insect's destination route chosen according to internal state colony, by its reading variety environmental cues predict currently most productive. Ants bees prime selectively associated particular route, describes some determine their choice. Many ants, bees, wasps central place foragers go out from nest collect return food other resources. The focuses foraging because have been described studied in more detail than those flying wasps, simple reason paths walking insects easier monitor. Studies tell us following can be guided visual motor also along route. Since several an insect has learnt may pass through single place, recognition will not itself ensure relevant