IPAB workshop - 19/01/2017

Title: Vector addition in the brain of an insect

 

Abstract: Many insects are good at navigation, with ants and bees in particular able to travel long distances to forage and then return to their nests. Until recently, the behaviour was much better studied than the underlying neurophysiology. We have been working on computational models that match closely to the neuroanatomy of specific brain areas. I will focus particularly on our most recent work on a circuit called the "central complex", which we show can perform path integration. The neural implementation has an interesting algorithmic interpretation that may also be relevant to explaining other navigational behaviours, such as the bee dance, and vector addition to generate novel shortcuts.  

Jan 19 2017 -

IPAB workshop - 19/01/2017

Barbara Webb

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