... of local vector memories may permit an ant the flexibility to adapt its route to fluctuations in the distribution of its resources. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 16 12 2008 2009 cognition insects navigation spatial Insects...

.... The echo received from an interference-rich flower corolla is a function of a bat's own relative position in space. This raises the question how easily a free-flying bat will generalize an echo stimulus from a learning situation to a new spatial context where differences in relative flight approach...

... this peculiarity is limited to primates and humans. We built a virtual reality set-up that takes the wide-angle visual system of rats into account. We show for the first time that rats learn spatial tasks in this VE quite readily. This set-up opens up new opportunities for investigations of information processing...