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		<title>Away from the beaten track.</title>
		<link>http://insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/away-from-the-beaten-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have excellent descriptions of the navigational behaviors of solitary foragers, such as desert ants. We also have good descriptions of the collective properties of foraging within networks of pheromone-trails. An emerging area of research lies at the intersection of these topics, where we can ask questions about how individuals integrate their personal navigational knowledge [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=588&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The genetics of learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The orientation flights of bees are lovely examples of behaviours structured to aid learning. The mushroom bodies of insects have long-been implicated in learning of all types. Here, evidence is presented to the genetic mechanisms related to learning in the MB following the orientation flights of naive bees as well as bees responding to the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=586&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The many compasses of bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract: Honeybees have at least three compass mechanisms: a magnetic compass; a celestial or sun compass, based on the daily rotation of the sun and sun-linked skylight patterns; and a backup celestial compass based on a memory of the sun&#8217;s movements over time in relation to the landscape. The interactions of these compass systems have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=583&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interaction of visual and substrate cues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interaction of private and public cues is an interesting aspect of ant navigation. Here, we have another demonstration of the primacy of visual cues during a spatial task, the task being the colony emigration of Temnothorax. Abstract: &#8220;Many ants rely on both visual cues and self-generated chemical signals for navigation, but their relative importance [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=581&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>﻿Do ants need discrete snapshots?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 10:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is well established in the literature that a single view of the world is unique to the location from where the view was perceived/stored. This leads to the idea of snapshot guidance to a single goal. A logical extension is to imagine routes could be composed of multiple snapshots which an ant uses in a sequence &#8211; an idea [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=579&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial Compound Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 19:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Nature has an interesting bit of engineering inspired by insect eyes: Abstract: &#8220;In arthropods, evolution has created a remarkably sophisticated class of imaging systems, with a wide-angle field of view, low aberrations, high acuity to motion and an infinite depth of field. A challenge in building digital cameras with the hemispherical, compound apposition [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=576&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global and Local Scene Encoding</title>
		<link>http://insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/global-and-local-scene-encoding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is well understood that a key navigational mechanism for insects involves the learning of visual information from panoramic scenes. This leaves us with a basic question of how insects encode visual scenes for navigational. Computational studies have shown us how visual navigation can be achieved with: (i) Raw images; (ii) Sets of local visual [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=574&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A glimpse of directional recruitment in ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although many ant species have very neat recruitment systems, in the form of their pheromone trail networks, some ant species &#8211; notably desert ants &#8211; do not use pheromone trails. Whether these ants have any other form of directional recruitment is a fascinating question. From this study of the foraging ecology of the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti, we [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=572&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How do odours and path integration interact?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Cataglyphis ants, there are two particularly significant odours &#8211; are used to pinpoint food or nest. The nest is indicated by a Co2 plume, whereas food is indicated by complex molecules given off by recently dead insects. Before odour following can take place &#8211; guidance to the vicinity of food or nest is often [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=570&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The learning of social learning</title>
		<link>http://insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/the-learning-of-social-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has long been known that bees are attracted to flowers where other bees are currently feeding. Indeed, it has also been shown that bees can learn rewarding flower colours through the observation of conspecifics feeding on a particular flower. The question at the heart of this paper (Dawson et al.) is whether such social [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insectandrobotnavigation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9981366&#038;post=567&#038;subd=insectandrobotnavigation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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