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The acquisition and performance of visually guided routes in the wood ant

Reference	S19901
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Thomas Collett
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Paul Graham
Institution	University of Sussex
Department	Biology and Environmental Science
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	205,420
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/01/2004
End date	31/12/2006
Duration	36 months

Abstract

To understand better the visual memories involved in route following, wood ants will be trained on a route where the only useful cues will come from a visual landmark that the ants approach. Detailed analysis will be made of the ants paths and looking patterns in tests with novel starting positions and with dynamically altered landmarks, as well as during the acquisition of new routes. Short routes are controlled by multiple memories that consist of stored views taken from particular locations. Major aims are to discover whether internal links exist between discrete visual features in an ants stored view of a scene and between scenes and to determine the role of such links in reliable memory recall and robust navigation.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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