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... , J. ( 2012 ). Maintaining a cognitive map in darkness: the need to fuse boundary knowledge with path integration . PLoS Comput. Biol. 8 , e1002651 . 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002651 Couey , J. J. , Witoelar , A. , Zhang , S.-J. , Zheng , K. , Ye , J. , Dunn , B...

... Euclidean cognitive maps, constructed on the basis of input from the path integration system. In this article, I review the rationale and behavioral evidence for this metric cognitive map hypothesis, and find it unpersuasive: in practice, there is little evidence for truly novel shortcuts in animals...

...N. Blaser; G. Dell'Omo; G. Dell'Ariccia; D. P. Wolfer; H.-P. Lipp SUMMARY Homing pigeons ( Columba livia ) are believed to adopt a map-and-compass strategy to find their way home. Surprisingly, to date a clear demonstration of the use of a cognitive map in free-flight experiments is missing...

.... , Biro D. , Guilford T. ( 2005 ). Homing pigeons develop local route stereotypy . Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 272 , 17 - 23 . Miglino O. , Lund H. H. ( 2001 ). Do rats need Euclidean cognitive maps of the environmental shape? Cogn. Process. 3 , 22 - 33...

... representations. According to this model, the interplay gives rise to an order parameter, such as the environment's dimensions or geometry, enabling progression to a subsequent exploratory behavior. This dynamic and sequential interplay reaches a steady state when a spatial representation (i.e. `cognitive map...

... some evidence of the animal's use of such representation might be revealed. In the present study, we assumed that possession of any sort of global spatial representation can be considered as having a cognitive map, as in the general definition of a `cognitive map' used by Gallistel( Gallistel, 1990...

... faster than smaller, sub-adult fish. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 11 9 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 electric fish Gnathonemus petersii electrolocation landmark spatial navigation development cognitive map Forming...

... disoriented and drift away from the target within seconds of the field being switched off. This result suggests that the fish are unable to construct a cognitive map of a dipole source from brief exposure to local electrosensory stimuli. The second set of trials shows that Brachyhypopomus diazi and Gymnotus...

... and familiar visual cues cooperate to optimize the navigational performance. ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1996 path integration dead reckoning visual landmarks cognitive map mammals Path integration, also termed ‘dead reckoning’, is a navigational process by which signals generated...

...Andrew T. D. Bennett ABSTRACT Drawing on studies of humans, rodents, birds and arthropods, I show that ‘cognitive maps’ have been used to describe a wide variety of spatial concepts. There are, however, two main definitions. One, sensu Tolman, O’Keefe and Nadel, is that a cognitive map...